Bread Ovens of Quebec

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Boily, Lise

Regional & International

Canadian Mus of Civilization

Six Chapters of CanadaÕs Prehistory

Six Chapters of Canada's Prehistory

History

Wright, James V.

Americas

This book is written for the general public as a guide to The Dig, a special feature of the Canada Before Cartier Hall in the National Museum of Man in Ottawa. The Dig is a reconstruction of an actual West Coast archaeological excavation, spanning 5,000 years of history of a Canadian Indian village. It is the story of the Coast Tsimshian people.Three chapters attempt to acquaint the reader with the scope, objectives and techniques of archaeology; with the interpretation of what is found in an archaeological excavation; and with the prehistory of the Coast Tsimshian villages and people, as revealed by National Museum of Man archaeological projects.

The Dig: An Archaeological Reconstruction of a West Coast Village

MacDonald, George F.

Inglis, Richard I.

The Longhouse Iroquois of Southern Ontario and New York State are carriers today of an ancient tradition of political and religious oratory, one strand of which is a set of speeches, chants and songs associated with the calendrical round of ceremonies. Among these are four rituals based on a graded hierarchy of Òspirit forcesÓ -- from the animals and plants on earth to the celestial bodies in the sky, to completely ethereal beings beyond. The study, based on analysis of 17 transcribed and translated versions of these rituals from seven speakers representing four longhouses and two languages (Cayugo and Seneca), focuses on three interrelated points: the hierarchic rituals reflect the Iroquois conceptualization of the cosmos; they reveal two kinds of variation, one associated with differences in function among the four types, the other associated with stylistic differences for speakers belonging to different local traditions; and variation in performance is linked to the process of oral composition itself.

Ontario Prehistory: An Eleven-thousand-year Archaeological Outline

Maritime Provinces Prehistory

Tuck, James A

Pointing at the Wind: The Weather Vane Collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crepaeu, Pierre

Crafts & Hobbies

Arctic Odyssey: The Diary of Diamond Jenness, 1913-1916

Arctic Odyssey: The Diary of Diamond Jenness, Ethnologist With the Canadian Arctic Expedition in Northern Alaska and Canada, 1913-1916

Canadian Museum of Civilization

Jenness, Diamond

The Arctic Odyssey of Diamond Jenness, presented here with the immediacy and humanity of a private journal, simply could not now happen. That Arctic world of 1913-165 no longer exists. Its climate and geography remain, but the people, their ways of living, feeling, thinking, believing, and behaving, vanished and are now only lost, vague memories in a few, very old minds. For such reasons, JennessÕ Arctic journal holds vital content. It provides us insight at ground level of his long, tough voyage of discover, so that anyone interested in Arctic America or Canadian studies will find this journal a rare and enriching experience. Further, for Arctic scholars, this journal presents the detailed context for those pioneer monographs that launched the career of young Jenness and led to his becoming CanadaÕs preeminent anthropologist.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The Canadian Museum of Civilization

Opus: The Making of Musical Instruments in Canada

Begin, Carmelle

Nebel, Constance

For the Nlaka'pamux of the southern British Columbia Interior, the art of dress and adornment has been an art of aesthetic, social and religious significance. Using a technology developed over thousands of years, people sewed tanned skins and wove cedar, willow, lichen anfIndian-hemo fibres to make their garments. Colourful feathers, seeds and shells were used s decoration. UImages drawn with paints and dyes reflected their dreams, visions and life experience; With the arrival of European traders, NLaka'pamux clothing style quickly changed to adopt new materials and fashions. Yet, the skills needed to produce traditional clothing and the knowledge of its symbolic importance continued and are still taught in NLaka'pamux communities today. Earth Line and Morning Star is the first in-depth study of NLaka'pamux clothing traditions. --- from book's back cover

Earth Line and Morning Star: Nlaka'Pamux Clothing Traditions

Arts & Photography

Tepper, Leslie Heyman

History & Criticism

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