Northwest Coast Indian Painting: House Fronts and Interior Screens Book

	Acknowledgments	9
	Introduction	11
Ch. I	Native Culture and the Painting Tradition	17
	The Explorers' Observations	22
	The Geographic Distribution of the Paintings	27
Ch. II	The Foundations of the Painting Tradition	31
	The Village	32
	The House Group	35
	House Names	37
	The Crest System	38
	Mythology and Two-Dimensional Painting	41
Ch. III	The Northern Style	49
	House Front and Facade Paintings	50
	Interior Screens	52
	Tlingit Screens and Emblems	54
	Tlingit House Front Paintings	66
	Tsimshian Background to Painting	69
	Tsimshian Paintings	71
	Haida Paintings	77
Ch. IV	The Central and Southern Traditions	81
	Northern Kwakiutl Paintings	82
	Bella Coola Paintings	84
	Southern Kwakiutl Paintings	87
	Southern Kwakiutl Variations in Painting	98
	Nuu chaa nulth Paintings	104
	Coast Salish Painting	107
Ch. V	Characteristics of Northwest Coast Native Flat
	Painting	109
	Content of the Paintings	111
	The Question of Provenance	112
	Color	113
	Wood	115
	The Arrangement of Figures	116
	Bilateral Symmetry	118
	Horror Vacui	119
	The X-Ray Motif	120
	The Anatomy of the Face	121
	Eye and Face Designs	123
	The Extraordinary Place of the Tongue	125
	Appendages	127
Ch. VI	The Native Artist and His World	129
	A Few Known Artists	131
	Apprenticeship of Young Artists	133
	The Transitional Artists	136
	The Commissioning of a Painting	141
	The Artist at Work	142
	Further Questions	145
	The Remarkable Case of the Rain Wall Screen	147
Ch. VII	A New Life	151
	The Great Surge Forward	154
	Resurrecting the House Front Painting	155
	The Return of the Interior Screen	158
	Drawings (figures)	161
	Photographs (plates)	225
	Bibliography	281
	Index	284