Gyetim Gan: faces in the forest
This thesis examines the history and meanings of Gitxsan Gyetim Gan, or face carved in a [living] tree , or tree art. In this work the author tries to answer an number of questions about this art form, such as, What are the purposes of tree art? who is the audience? why has tree art been so invisibl...
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ftunbcolumbiadc:oai:unbc.arcabc.ca:unbc_17004 2024-05-19T07:49:34+00:00 Gyetim Gan: faces in the forest Blackstock, Michael D. (Author) Mills, Antonia (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) 1996 electronic Number of pages in document: 170 https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc:17004/datastream/PDF/download https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A17004 https://doi.org/10.24124/1996/bpgub14 English eng University of Northern British Columbia Copyright retained by the author. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Gitksan Indians -- Wood-carving Gitksan Indians -- Legends Gitksan art Tsimshian Indians -- Wood-carving Tsimshian Indians -- Legends Tsimshian art Carrier Indians -- Wood-carving Carrier Indians -- Legends Carrier Indians -- Art Totem poles -- British Columbia E99.K55 B53 1996 Text thesis 1996 ftunbcolumbiadc https://doi.org/10.24124/1996/bpgub14 2024-04-19T00:31:01Z This thesis examines the history and meanings of Gitxsan Gyetim Gan, or face carved in a [living] tree , or tree art. In this work the author tries to answer an number of questions about this art form, such as, What are the purposes of tree art? who is the audience? why has tree art been so invisible to the colonizer? how can tree art be protected? and why were faces a common image carved in trees? To find answers to these questions, the author called upon adaawk (a Gitxsan term for oral history and stories). The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1157107 Thesis Tsimshian Tsimshian* UNBC's Digital Institutional Repository (University of Northern British Columbia) |
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Gitksan Indians -- Wood-carving Gitksan Indians -- Legends Gitksan art Tsimshian Indians -- Wood-carving Tsimshian Indians -- Legends Tsimshian art Carrier Indians -- Wood-carving Carrier Indians -- Legends Carrier Indians -- Art Totem poles -- British Columbia E99.K55 B53 1996 |
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Gitksan Indians -- Wood-carving Gitksan Indians -- Legends Gitksan art Tsimshian Indians -- Wood-carving Tsimshian Indians -- Legends Tsimshian art Carrier Indians -- Wood-carving Carrier Indians -- Legends Carrier Indians -- Art Totem poles -- British Columbia E99.K55 B53 1996 Gyetim Gan: faces in the forest |
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Gitksan Indians -- Wood-carving Gitksan Indians -- Legends Gitksan art Tsimshian Indians -- Wood-carving Tsimshian Indians -- Legends Tsimshian art Carrier Indians -- Wood-carving Carrier Indians -- Legends Carrier Indians -- Art Totem poles -- British Columbia E99.K55 B53 1996 |
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This thesis examines the history and meanings of Gitxsan Gyetim Gan, or face carved in a [living] tree , or tree art. In this work the author tries to answer an number of questions about this art form, such as, What are the purposes of tree art? who is the audience? why has tree art been so invisible to the colonizer? how can tree art be protected? and why were faces a common image carved in trees? To find answers to these questions, the author called upon adaawk (a Gitxsan term for oral history and stories). The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1157107 |
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Blackstock, Michael D. (Author) Mills, Antonia (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) |
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University of Northern British Columbia |
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https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc:17004/datastream/PDF/download https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A17004 https://doi.org/10.24124/1996/bpgub14 |
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