List of maps and images
Nomination of Pauline Hillaire for the National Heritage Fellowship, Vi Hilbert, Upper Skagit
A Call to Carvers, Pauline Hillaire
Introduction
Scälla, of the Orca Whale: A brief biography,
Rebecca Chamberlain
PART ONE: JOE HILLAIRE
1 Carving
2 Power of the Bear: Memories of my father, Joe Hillaire
3 Kwul-kwul’tw, Spirit of the War Club: Renaissance Man, Religious Man
PART TWO: COAST SALISH ART AND CARVING
4 Straits Salish Carving
Bill Holm
5 Joseph Raymond Hillaire: Lummi Artist-Diplomat
Barbara Brotherton
6 Coast Salish Carving: Our Work is our Identity
Felix Solomon, Lummi/Haida
7 I Look to the Old People: Reflections on Carving and the Legacy of Joe Hillaire
Scott Kadach' aak'u Jensen
8 A Thin Red Line: Pigments and Paint Technology of the Northwest Coast
Melonie Ancheta
9 Maintaining Integrity: Totem Poles Conservation and Restoration of the Centennial History Pole
Andrew Todd
10 Archetypes from Cedar: Myth and Coast Salish Story Poles
Gregory Fields
11 Artists were the First Teachers: Spiritual Significance of Coast Salish Carving
CHiXapkaid (Michael Pavel), Skokomish
Part Three: Totem Poles of Joe Hillaire
12 Bellingham Centennial History Pole
13 Schelangen Story Pole (Mobil/Ferndale Pole)
14 Sister Cities Seattle and Kobe, Japan Pole
15 Land in the Sky Story Pole, Seattle World’s Fair
16 Man in Transition Story Pole, Northwest Indian College
17 T’Kope Kwiskwis Lodge Entrance Pole
18 Bronson Story Pole
19 Halibut Fisherman Story Pole 1
20 Halibut Fisherman Story Pole 2
21 Double-headed Wolf Totem Pole
PART FOUR: LUMMI ORAL HISTORY AND TRADIITION
22 Some place-names from Lummi History
23 Canoes
24 Longhouses of Long Ago
25 A Wedding in Lummi History, plans for a play
26 How the Lummis came to their Present Abode
27 Lummi at the Treaty-making Time, a play
28 Tsats-mun-ton, a legend
29 Four Generations of Medicine Men, a legend
30 The Mink Family and the Raccoon Family, a folktale
31 Stommish: Revival of the Water Festival
32 Signs of the Seasons
Appendix
Bibliography
Index