Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they ...
Volume #12 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Hopi. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The early form of maize found at Bat Cave, called Zea mays, had been domesticated from its wild ancestor, teosinte (Zea mexicana), as early as 5000 b.c., somewhere in the highlands of southeastern Mexico. The grain reached the Southwest ...
In 2012 a complete set of the original edition has been auctioned for some USD 1.4 million. This is the first time in over a century that a modestly priced, high-quality republication has been available.
Cree and Montagnais aboriginal dwellings were conical or round wigwams covered with caribou or moose hides or a layer of moss over which birch bark was laid. Innu, living for the most part beyond birch woods, used the caribouskin tipi.
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 ...
An illustrated introduction to North American Indian tribes and their customs.
Looks at traditional Indian baskets, pottery, carvings, textiles, jewelry, and pictographs, discusses the meaning, traditions, and individuality of Indian art
A photographic book providing a record of the Indians of North America between 1850 and the First World War as seen by early photographers.