About 20 years ago our friend, Scott Jensen, called us up and said, "Hey, come on, there’s…

My second day in Changchun I was taken to Mount Changbai near the North Korean border. Changbai…

Vegetable or Mineral Around the world throughout history many people have substituted vegetable matter for pigments with…

The everlasting power of red ochre The earliest known use of red ochre on the NW Coast…

Fig 5 is a small sampler of the red ochres I have. (I have more than a…

The involvement of the Russians in the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest gave the Blue Russian…

Prehistoric Red Paint on the Northwest Coast Recently I spent the afternoon at Simon Fraser University in…

Changchun is a city of about 7 million in Northeast China. There are about 20 universities in…

The opening was on March 23rd, 2011 and will only be shown for one week. The exhibition…