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Northwest Coast Indian Painting... is eerily beautiful. Publishers Weekly 19990531 With its colorful reproductions, House Fronts and Interior Screens is as much a treasure for the art lover as it will be for the sociologist. Art Times 19990701 This major contribution to the study of Northwest coast Indian art will quickly become a standard. Choice 19991201 Edward Malin resurrects the American Indian art form of 'flat painting' that peaked on the Northwest coast more than a century ago. -- Virgil Rupp East Oregonian 20020317

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Edward Malin is an anthropologist whose professional life has been dedicated to the study of Northwest Coast Indians. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in cultural anthropology and East Asian studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Before retiring from the Japanese studies program at the University of Portland, he served as chairman of the humanities department at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon; chairman and associate professor in social sciences at Marylhurst College; teacher of folklore and cultural anthropology at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon; and a consultant with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Arts & Crafts Board. Malin has also been a lecturer for the Seattle Art Museum and the Ethnic Arts Council. He resides in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

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