Argillite - Art of the Haida

Boards show light shelf wear, DJ shows heavier shelf wear with short tears and chipping along top edge. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W photos of the artwork throughout, colour plate frontispiece and B&W maps of the area ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 313 pages; "An exploration of the art of the Haida, an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their main territory is the archipelago of Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia, Canada. Haida society continues to produce a robust and highly stylized art form, a leading component of Northwest Coast art. In particular, this work explores the Haida carvings created from a type of a hard, fine black silt argillite (a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles), sometimes called 'black slate.'" Title: Argillite - Art of the Haida Author Name: Drew, Leslie & Doug Wilson Edition: First Edition ISBN Number: 0888390378 ISBN-13: 9780888390370 Location Published: North Vancouver, BC, Hancock House Pub Ltd: 1980 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket Item: 1.00 lb Categories: Native Studies, Arts, Art Seller ID: 22638 Keywords: haida gwai argillite