Ancient thunder

Title
Ancient thunder

Personal Author EPSB
Leo, Yerxa

Summary
Ancient Thunder celebrates wild horses and the natural world in which they lived in harmony.A beautiful and visionary book, Ancient Thundercelebrates wild horses and the natural world of the prairies. Using an extraordinary technique, Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, makes paper look like leather, so that his illustrations seem to be painted on leather shirts. Each shirt is accompanied by a rich song of praise for the wild horses that came to play such an important role in the lives of the First Peoples. Years in the making, the book is truly a work of art -one that reflects Yerxa's sense of nature and the place of native people within it.

Year Published
2015,
 
2006

Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm

Note (Local)
Literacy Seed Kit Text Set on Poetry: I shall wait and wait -- Ocean's child / Ford -- For the children / Joe -- Arctic dreams / Gerber -- Buffalo

Subject
Wild horses.
 
Horses in art.

Summary
Ancient Thunder celebrates wild horses and the natural world in which they lived in harmony.A beautiful and visionary book, Ancient Thundercelebrates wild horses and the natural world of the prairies. Using an extraordinary technique, Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, makes paper look like leather, so that his illustrations seem to be painted on leather shirts. Each shirt is accompanied by a rich song of praise for the wild horses that came to play such an important role in the lives of the First Peoples. Years in the making, the book is truly a work of art -one that reflects Yerxa's sense of nature and the place of native people within it.

ISBN
9781554981274

Publisher
Toronto : Groundwood Books, [2015]
 
©2006


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
McLeodE YERBook30200000058941First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Resource