Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Art Elements and Principles Color Shape/Form Balance Repetition Tribal Map of the Pacific NW

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Tlingits at a Potlatch 1904 Sitka, Alaska

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Totem Poles Kwakiutl Totem Pole Thunderbird form Alert Bay, British Columbia

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Detail of Tlingit Totem Pole Totem Bight State Park Ketchikan, Alaska Tlingit Clan House, Reproduction Totem Bight State Park Ketchikan, Alaska

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Interior of Chilkat Whale House c Klukwan, Alaska

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Textiles Chilkat Tunic 1880 Mountain goat hair and cedar bark Tlingit

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Chilkat Tunic 1875 Mountain goat hair and cedar bark Tlingit

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Chief’s Raven Rattle Wood, 13 ½” in length Tsimshian

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Masks Kwakiutl Mask Wood and pigment

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Haida Whale and Seagull Transformation Mask - closed c Wood, paint, copper Haida Whale and Seagull Transformation Mask - open

Northwest Coastal Indians Southern Alaska to the Columbia River ~ Lake Oswego Art Literacy ~ Tsimshian Mask (Kispiox) Birch, 9-1/5” x 8-1/2” Portland Art Museum Portland, OR