Haida_Art

Haida Art Beautiful indeed is the art made by the Indian tribes of the northwest pacific coast. Wood carvings made from mostly cedar bark and other types of wood have stood the test of time are still today as beautiful as the day they were made. Some artifacts have been around for over a thousand years and still are in excellent condition. There are many different types of art made by these tribes. Northwest Indian art has all types of different uses and purposes. The abundant red cedars were used to make huge dugout canoes, multifamily plank houses, numerous splendidly carved totem poles as memorials and as portal poles, and carved boxes and dishes. Chiefs gave potlatches to guests of the opposite moiety, displaying hereditary crests and dances. Shamans wore masks indicative of their spirit powers in curing. A lot of the everyday tools and artifacts these tribes used we today consider very valuable and precious art. The uses and purposes of masks range from selling for money or trading for goods to tribal rituals and ceremonies. The ones for sale today or which were made for sale had small differences then the ones actually used shaman, masks, tribe, very, form, supernatural, poles, made, haida, different, years, through, men, make, lines, kwakiutl, ceremonies, carving, being, art, wood, upon, types, tribes, totem, today, something, sale, red, potlatch, over, one, northwest, man, line