Archive: Northwest Coast

Red ochre in situ Wilgie Mia mine Australia
Native Paint Revealed 4

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

Categories:Fine Craft, History Tags:Northwest Coast Art:Painting Technique:making paint, pigment grinding Materials:pigment, red ocher
Fig-11 Red ochre stone rubbed flat. Burke Museum
Native Paint Revealed 3

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

Categories:Fine Craft, History Tags:Northwest Coast Materials:pigment, red ocher
Stone clay cake and powder pigments. Personal collection
Native Paint Revealed 2

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

Categories:Fine Craft, History Tags:Northwest Coast Art:Painting Materials:pigment, red ocher
Blue Russian Trade Beads and Sterling Silver Hummingbird by Janet Walker
Historical Russian Blue Trade Beads

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

Categories:History Tags:Northwest Coast, Russian American Fur Company Materials:trade-beads
Fig-3 Engraved red ochre from Bolomobos Cave dated at 40,000 yrs old
Native Paint Revealed 1

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

Categories:Fine Craft, History Tags:Northwest Coast Art:Painting Materials:pigment, red ocher
Cornaline D'Aleppo and Hudsons Bay White Hearts Trade-beads
Trade Beads and Fort Vancouver, WA

Since glass Trade Beads are one of my passions/addictions, my recent visit to the Fort…

Categories:History, Travel Tags:Northwest Coast Art:Beading