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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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... scrolls . Individual images as well as the overall bark format of the song scrolls are much smaller , even miniature , in scale and are incised with greater detail , with fine , tenuous , and often hesitant lines . Motifs in the song ...
... scrolls . Individual images as well as the overall bark format of the song scrolls are much smaller , even miniature , in scale and are incised with greater detail , with fine , tenuous , and often hesitant lines . Motifs in the song ...
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... scrolls have more widespread and more ancient roots than the official Midewiwin scrolls . As the 19th century German traveller Kohl ( 1957 : 145 ) seems to suggest , many song scrolls have their iconographic origins in the ...
... scrolls have more widespread and more ancient roots than the official Midewiwin scrolls . As the 19th century German traveller Kohl ( 1957 : 145 ) seems to suggest , many song scrolls have their iconographic origins in the ...
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