The Spirit sings
Subtitle: artistic traditions of Canada's first peoples.
Contributors: Whitehead, Ruth Holmes.; Glenbow Museum.
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart; Glenbow Museum; McClelland & Stewart
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Toronto; [Calgary]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Canada -- Material culture; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Art; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Religion
Description: Publication to accompany the exhibition held at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, during the Olympic Winter Games of 1988. Six essays describe aboriginal costumes, quillwork, stone, wood and bone carvings, jewelry, masks and ritual objects, mainly from the pre-contact era, as well as paintings and diary sketches by Europeans at the time of contact.
Notes: Volume based on an exhibition of the same name at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta which was part of the Arts Festival of the XV Winter Olympic Games.

Texts by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ... [et al.]

Bibliography: p. 247-262.