Coast Salish Totem Poles: Media Companion to "A Totem Pole History"

by Pauline R. Hillaire, Gregory P. Fields (Editor), CHiXapkaid Michael Pavel (Compiler)

Overview

Coast Salish Totem Poles, the media companion to A Totem Pole History, includes:
• Two CDs that feature Pauline Hillaire telling traditional stories associated with the totem poles and Joe Hillaire singing Lummi songs.
• A DVD that features Pauline showing viewers how to interpret the stories and history expressed in Joe’s totem poles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803271869
Publisher:	Fields -- Hillaire
Publication date:	12/01/2013
Series:	Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
Edition description:	Two CDs/One DVD
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Pauline Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale, is a Lummi cultural historian, author, genealogist, artist, teacher, and conservator of Straits Salish knowledge and culture. Gregory P. Fields is a professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the author of Religious Therapeutics.

Table of Contents

List of maps and images

Nomination of Pauline Hillaire for the National Heritage  Fellowship, Vi Hilbert, Upper Skagit

A Call to Carvers, Pauline Hillaire

Introduction

Scälla, of the Orca Whale: A brief biography,

Rebecca Chamberlain

 

PART ONE: JOE HILLAIRE

    1     Carving

    2     Power of the Bear: Memories of my father, Joe Hillaire

    3     Kwul-kwul’tw, Spirit of the War Club: Renaissance Man, Religious Man

 

PART TWO:       COAST SALISH ART AND CARVING   

4     Straits Salish Carving

            Bill Holm

5     Joseph Raymond Hillaire: Lummi Artist-Diplomat

Barbara Brotherton

6     Coast Salish Carving: Our Work is our Identity

            Felix Solomon, Lummi/Haida

7     I Look to the Old People: Reflections on Carving and the Legacy of Joe Hillaire

Scott Kadach' aak'u  Jensen

8    A Thin Red Line: Pigments and Paint Technology of the Northwest Coast

Melonie Ancheta

9    Maintaining Integrity: Totem Poles Conservation and Restoration of the Centennial History Pole

            Andrew Todd

10   Archetypes from Cedar: Myth and Coast Salish Story Poles

            Gregory Fields

11   Artists were the First Teachers: Spiritual Significance of Coast Salish Carving

            CHiXapkaid (Michael Pavel), Skokomish

 

Part Three:   Totem Poles of Joe Hillaire

12   Bellingham Centennial History Pole

13   Schelangen Story Pole (Mobil/Ferndale Pole)

14   Sister Cities Seattle and Kobe, Japan Pole

15   Land in the Sky Story Pole, Seattle World’s Fair

16   Man in Transition Story Pole, Northwest Indian College

17   T’Kope Kwiskwis Lodge Entrance Pole

18   Bronson Story Pole

19   Halibut Fisherman Story Pole 1

20   Halibut Fisherman Story Pole 2

21   Double-headed Wolf Totem Pole

 

PART FOUR:    LUMMI ORAL HISTORY AND TRADIITION

22   Some place-names from Lummi History

23   Canoes

24   Longhouses of Long Ago

25   A Wedding in Lummi History, plans for a play

26   How the Lummis came to their Present Abode

27   Lummi at the Treaty-making Time, a play

28   Tsats-mun-ton, a legend

29   Four Generations of Medicine Men, a legend

30   The Mink Family and the Raccoon Family, a folktale  

31     Stommish: Revival of the Water Festival

32   Signs of the Seasons

Appendix

Bibliography

Index