New Releases
Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World
By Justin Jennings, Martha Cuevas García, and Roberto López Bravo
Shrouded in mystery for centuries, the culture of the ancient Maya is finally being revealed. This book, like its companion exhibition, presents a captivating and up-to-date synopsis of this storied civilization which rose to incredible heights a thousand years ago in Mesoamerica, then mysteriously faded away. Discover grand pyramids that were built for the gods but abandoned in the jungle wilderness. Learn about divine rulers, deadly rituals, and the realities of everyday life. Marvel at timekeeping and writing systems that have intrigued and tested generations of scholars. This authoritative, 72-page volume features over 60 full-colour images of outstanding artifacts.
TREASURES from the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum
By FRANK CORCORAN AND VICTOR RABINOVITCH
Highlights from more than 150 years of collecting include outstanding examples of ethnographic regalia, archaeological specimens, as well as objects fashioned from gold, silver, bronze, and ivory that would be standouts in any national collection. All of these come from Canada’s largest and most popular Museum. The artifacts are beautifully photographed and vividly explained in brief articles.
Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1918: A Story of Exploration, Science and SovereigntyThis book presents the first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1918, led by the ethnologist/explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson.
Inuit Prints: Japanese InspirationEarly Printmaking in the Canadian Arctic
Some fifty years ago, the remote Inuit community of Cape Dorset in the Canadian Arctic was introduced to the ancient traditions of Japanese printmaking by a Canadian artist, James Houston, who had studied printmaking in Japan with the revered master printmaker Un’ichi Hiratsuka.
North American Aboriginal Hide Tanning: The Act of Transformation and Revival
This book examines the methodology, tools and spiritual aspects of what was once almost a lost art. Over the course of research which has spanned some 30 years, the author has interviewed more than 40 tanners from the Northwest Territories to Oklahoma.
Painting the Past with a Broad Brush: Papers in Honour of James Valliere WrightFor over 50 years, J. V. Wright was a ground-breaking leader and inspiring mentor for the Canadian archaeological profession.
A Brush with War: Military Art from Korea to AfghanistanThis full-colour guide for the exhibition A Brush with War: Military Art from Korea to Afghanistan provides a powerful visual record of the Canadian military experience from 1946 to 2008, and shows how Canadian artists are expanding the boundaries of Canadian military art in diverse and important directions.
Profit and Ambition: The Canadian Fur Trade, 1779–1821Re-live the heroic days of the Canadian fur trade, a period of a little more than forty years when a group of Montréal traders pushed the limits of European exploration and commerce west from Lake Winnipeg to the Pacific Ocean and north to the Arctic.