Nearly 40 detailed, accurate illustrations of natives making drums, building a dugout canoe, carving totem poles, building a fire, more. Includes fact-filled captions.
Crafts of the North American Indians: A Craftsman's Manual
"What makes this work exceptional is the color photography, use of illustrations and diagrams, and maps.
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 ...
Modern Indians can use the streamer trail-marking method to point out the route followed up a branching river or among scattered islands on a lake. A bright yellow streamer dangling from a tree branch or a tree overhanging the lake ...
Packed with information and authentic full-color illustrations, this handsome guide will be welcomed by everyone interested in American cultural history.
Parfleches Other bags used by the Plains Indians were made of rawhide. The flat rawhide clothes case, known as a parfleche, was made from a whole skin. A calfskin prepared according to the directions given in Chapter Four can be turned ...
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 ...
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...
Patterns and instructions for making over 20 variations of moccasins.
Examines, through text and photographs, the wide variety of arts and crafts skills practiced by Native Americans living in the nine cultural regions of North America, illustrating some of the...