
LEGENDS OF MY PEOPLE THE GREAT OJIBWAY
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McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, Toronto, 1977, Second Printing. ISBN 0-07-077714-4. Illustrated and told by Norval Morriseau and edited by Selwyn Dewdney. Trade paperback, 130 pages. Very good; illustrated wraps show light edge and cover wear, light reading and faint corner creases, some age-toning and small marks. Prior owner’s info inked on verso of front wrap; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with lightly toned pages; black & white illustrations. ‘… Norval Morriseau tells of the beliefs, tales and legends of the great Ojibway nation of Lake Nipigon and the Thunder Bay District. The book is illustrated with Morriseau’s bold and distinctive drawings. … Following his first exhibition of paintings in 1962, Toronto’s Globe & Mail art critic wrote: “Norval Morriseau has realized that though Ojibway law demands that their metaphysics be kept secret, the Indians would benefit if outsiders knew of their culture. He has devised his stylized semi-abstraction to express the mysticism of the culture.”’ (from rear wrap)