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Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem Poles, 1880-2010 Michael D. Hall and Pat Glascock, with contributions from Robert Davidson, Kate Duncan, Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis, Christopher W. Smith, and Charlotte Townsend-Gault Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2011. 224 pp. $60.00 cloth.
In 2010 the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon held an exhibition of 194 Northwest Coast style model totem poles. This handsome book is the catalogue for that exhibit. The model poles are presented chronologically in five defined "phases" and, within each phase, by cultural or tribal group. Information is given for each piece, including artist's name, birth and death dates, tribal affiliation, date of manufacture, media, dimensions, comments, and collection of origin. Michael Hall and Pat Glascock have included essays by academics Aaron Glass and Aldona Jonaitis, Kate Duncan, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, and an interview with Haida artist Robert Davidson. In addition to the excellent images of the model poles are black-and-white and colour...