Carve Your Own Totem Pole
How to plan, carve and paint your personal totem pole.\ This well-illustrated guidebook includes the history of totem-pole carving and its West Coast native traditions, techniques and patterns. It examines the historic and modern tools involved. And it also presents great ideas for carving a totem pole, whether with traditional designs or more personal folk-art motifs.\ Carving instructor Wayne Hill reveals how to select the right wood and use the correct tools to best advantage. Artist Jimi...
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A well-illustrated guidebook that includes the history of totem-pole carving and its West Coast native tradition, and instructions and ideas on how to design and carve a totem-pole as either a traditional design or in a personal folk-art motif.
Foreword 7The history of totem poles 9The designs of West Coast art 19Two-dimensional art 31Carving in two dimensions (plus one) 37Tools and wood 43Beginning to carve 51West Coast masks 65Carving a pole 85Beaks, wings, and outstretched arms 95Painting and sealing your pole 109Placing your pole 119Symbols of the West Coast 127About the authors 131
\ Muskoka Today - Lois Cooper\ A great book with explicit instructions on how to cure a log and carve it into a totem pole.... Woodsmen of Muskoka will start their chainsaws and create new art forms after reading this book.\ \ \
