Author: Andrew Hunter Whiteford
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1582381453
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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An illustrated guide to North American Indian arts and crafts.

Author: Philbrook Art Center
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9780933920569
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Fourteen authorities explore sociology, anthropology, art history of Native American creativity.

Author: David W. Penney
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500203774
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Artistic traditions of indigenous North America are explored in a study that draws on the testimonies of oral tradition, Native American history, and North American archaeology, focusing on the artists themselves and their cultural identities. Original.

Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192842183
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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The richness of Native American art is explored from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. 53 color photos. 104 halftones. 8 maps.

Author: Peter T. Furst
Publisher: New York : Rizzoli
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Encompasses all major tribal areas: the Southwest, California, the Pacific Northwest, the Eskimos of Canada and Alaska, the Plains and the Eastern Woodlands. Numerous colour photographs.

Author: Frederick J. Dockstader
Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : New York Graphic Society
ISBN:
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The magnificent art and decorative craftsmanship of the Indian tribes of North America appear in all of their colonial variety and complexity in this superb volume. Examples are included of the work of every major region in the areas now comprising the United States and Canada, of most of the numerically important or artistically pre-eminent tribes, and all of the major techniques employed by Indian artists. No reader of this book can long continue in a misapprehension of the stereotyped image of 'the Indian.' The varying cultures which developed on the North American continent - from the Eskimo hunters of the Arctic to the woodland League of the Iroquois, and from the Pueblo agriculturalists to the nomads of the Great Plains - are all represented. Each found its own ways of using available natural resources for utilitarian objects, for religious and ritual purposes, or for sheer aesthetic pleasure. The book abounds in beautiful examples of characteristics shell and quill work, pottery and weaving, deer and buffalo hide painting, carved stone pipes and tomahawks so commonly associated with Indian cultures. Less familiar are illustrations of mysterious stone effigy sculptures from the death-cults of the ancient Southeast; sophisticated carvings in stone and ivory from the Midwest; elaborate horse-trappings and costuming from the Great Plains; and a fascinating variety of masks. Dr. Dockstader draws upon a thorough knowledge of Indian life, custom and artistic tradition to relate this material to its sources in his introduction and in the extensive background comments accompanying each of the illustrations. He sees the art of the American Indian not as a subject for static sociological research, but as a living and continuing expression of a vital people, and he has included in this book a number of examples of recent and contemporary work by Indian artists. -- from dust jacket.

Author: Eva Wilson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486253414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Over 360 authentic royalty-free designs adapted from Navajo blankets and rugs, painted wooden masks, decorated moccasins, Hopi pottery, Sioux buffalo hides, more. Geometrics, symbolic figures, plant and animal motifs, much more.

Author:
Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books
ISBN: 9781571450296
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An activity pop-up book describing the lifestyles and some of the crafts of the North American Indian, Native American, people. Users may assemble a Kachina or a totem pole of use the stampers

Author: Bill Holm
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295999500
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world�s artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and other artworks display the complex and sophisticated northern Northwest Coast style of art that is the visual language used to illustrate inherited crests and tell family stories. In the 1950s Bill Holm, a graduate student of Dr. Erna Gunther, former Director of the Burke Museum, began a systematic study of northern Northwest Coast art. In 1965, after studying hundreds of bentwood boxes and chests, he published Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form. This book is a foundational reference on northern Northwest Coast Native art. Through his careful studies, Bill Holm described this visual language using new terminology that has become part of the established vocabulary that allows us to talk about works like these and understand changes in style both through time and between individual artists� styles. Holm examines how these pieces, although varied in origin, material, size, and purpose, are related to a surprising degree in the organization and form of their two-dimensional surface decoration. The author presents an incisive analysis of the use of color, line, and texture; the organization of space; and such typical forms as ovoids, eyelids, U forms, and hands and feet. The evidence upon which he bases his conclusions constitutes a repository of valuable information for all succeeding researchers in the field. Replaces ISBN 9780295951027

Author: Andrew Hunter Whiteford
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606116893
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Book Description
An illustrated guide to North American Indian arts and crafts.