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INTERPRETING BIRCH BARK SCROLLS JOAN M. VASTOKAS Trent University Midewiwin birch - bark scrolls comprise what is probably the most significant body of visual documents available in the study of native North American art history . Their ...
INTERPRETING BIRCH BARK SCROLLS JOAN M. VASTOKAS Trent University Midewiwin birch - bark scrolls comprise what is probably the most significant body of visual documents available in the study of native North American art history . Their ...
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... birch bark records , then , are narrative visual wholes and demand to be interpreted as such from the point of view of form as well as content . Early attempts at deciphering ... scroll or codex form . Weitzmann has BIRCH BARK SCROLLS 431.
... birch bark records , then , are narrative visual wholes and demand to be interpreted as such from the point of view of form as well as content . Early attempts at deciphering ... scroll or codex form . Weitzmann has BIRCH BARK SCROLLS 431.
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the birch bark scrolls . But , as Thomas Vennum ( 1978 ) has been able to show , specific motifs in a variety of song scrolls , when matched with surviving song texts , exhibit a remarkable regu- larity of meaning . This makes it ...
the birch bark scrolls . But , as Thomas Vennum ( 1978 ) has been able to show , specific motifs in a variety of song scrolls , when matched with surviving song texts , exhibit a remarkable regu- larity of meaning . This makes it ...
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19th century Abenaki acculturated Albany and Attawapiskat Algonquian Conference American animals Attawapiskat bags bark Basil beads beadwork belt Big Trout Lake birch bark scrolls birchbark bird canoe ceremonial hide culture d'une decorated deux dialect dubitative early England English European example Fort Albany Fort George gélinotte George Gladys Gladys Tantaquidgeon gunwale Hudson's Bay Company hunting Indians Iroquois Island James Bay Jocko land language langue legend linguistic manitou Maniwaki medicine Micmac Mide Midewiwin missionary Mistassini Mohegan Montagnais Moose Factory motifs Museum myths Nanabozho Nantucket narrative Native nombre non-Indian North noun obviative Ojibwa Ontario oral history orthography Ottawa paper patterns Penobscot pigs prefix preverbs Québec Rasles records REFERENCES ribs River root Saulteaux scrolls semantic Sheshatshiu Shinnecock speakers Speck spruce Swampy Cree Tantaquidgeon tion Toronto trade traditional tribes University variant verb stem village vowel Wabanaki wampum Watkins William