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Reading Rock Art: Interpreting the Indian Rock Paintings of the Canadian Shield

Reading Rock Art: Interpreting the Indian Rock Paintings of the Canadian Shield

Rajnovich, Grace
Yerxa, Wayne

Paperback

AnthropologyIndigenous Art of the Americas

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 155488473X
ISBN13: 9781554884735
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: May 29 2009
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

More than 400 rock paintings adorn the Canadian Shield from Quebec, across Ontario and as far west as Saskatchewan. The pictographs are the legacy of the Algonkian-speaking Cree and Ojibway, whose roots may extend to the beginnings of human occupancy in the region almost 10,000 years ago.

Archaeologist Grace Rajnovich spent fourteen years of field research uncovering a multitude of clues as to the meanings of the paintings. She has written a text which is unique in its ability to see the paintings from a traditional native viewpoint. Skilfully weaving the imagery, metaphors and traditions of the Cree and Ojibway, the author has recaptured the poetry and wisdom of an ancient culture.

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