"In 1998, Dzawada’enuxw artist Marianne Nicholson scaled a vertical rock face in Kingcome Inlet to paint a massive pictograph to mark the continued vitality of her ancestral village of Gwa’yi. Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time is the story of that painting, of earlier politically defiant rock art, and of "coppers," ceremonial shields that are a central motif in these images."--
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ISBN:0921586841 (softcover) :
ISBN:9780921586845 (softcover) :
Physical Description:240 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm print
1. Wolf pack -- 2. Haxwa'mis and Dzawada'enuxw -- 3. 'This copper just like big bank' -- 4. Red iron oxide -- 5. Since the flood -- 6. Girl in a glass skirt -- 7. 'From Comox to Kingcome Inlet in a small boat' -- 8. Cow meets copper -- 9. Bears? Fiddlesticks! -- 10. Scent of the river -- 11. 'We dance our dance among ourselves and in a peaceful manner, and it is ours' -- 12. Copper George -- 13. How you feel when you dance -- 14. Langugage, names, and site -- Epilogue.
Summary: "In 1998, Dzawada’enuxw artist Marianne Nicholson scaled a vertical rock face in Kingcome Inlet to paint a massive pictograph to mark the continued vitality of her ancestral village of Gwa’yi. Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time is the story of that painting, of earlier politically defiant rock art, and of "coppers," ceremonial shields that are a central motif in these images."--