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Each year, The Brooklyn Museum introduces thousands of children to the world of art, teaching them not only to appreciate individual objects in the collection, but how to look at and understand art anywhere. Now, with beautiful color and black-and-white images, The Native American Look Book brings the best of the Museum1s popular collection into homes and classrooms everywhere. The book includes do-it-yourself activities, the myths and legends that inform the objects, profiles of contemporary practitioners who continue these traditional crafts today, and a list of thirty-eight Native American museums and cultural sites across the country. ... Read more

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The Native American Look Book: Art and Activities for Kids
It was a very nice book and the native american kids that I gave it to really enjoyed it especially the pictures. ... Read more

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By Native Hands describes the history and context of Native American basketry with full-color photographs and scholarly text. The objects are brought to life in words and pictures, including such rare objects as a feathered Pomo blazing sun basket that took three years to create. This book presents baskets from every major geographic region of North America, with examples from the Chocktaw, Panamint Shoshone, Salish, Ojibwa, and many others.

By the turn of the nineteenth century, Catherine Marshall Gardiner had begun to collect woven baskets from Native American cultures across the continent. Her collection, the first donation to the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in 1923, is widely known as one of the finest and most representative Native American basketry collections. It now includes baskets from 88 tribes, almost all of the basket-making tribes in North America.

The contributors include Stephen W. Cook, Betty J. Duggan, Dawn Glinsmann, William Ashley Harris, and Joyce Herold. ... Read more

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From the author of the award-winning Art of Grace and Passion comes this spotlight on North American artisanship between 200 BC and the early 1900s. The masterworks featured here range from clothing, accessories, and ceremonial and hunting gear to blankets, cradles, storage vessels, and utensils. Each was crafted of such diverse materials as quills, ivory, hide, wood, fibers, stone, clay, and even glass beads imported by European traders.

George Everett Shaw, Steven C. Brown, Benson L. Lanford, and Bill Mercer examine how American Indians' existence developed around the challenges and benefits of the climate, terrain, flora, and fauna of their locales. Their art objects embody the spiritual devotion—inseparable from their relationship with the natural world—that even now shapes their lives. Whether decorated with abstract patterns or with representations of humans and animals, such pieces were vehicles for passing down beliefs and customs before written languages existed. Thus we can appreciate them not only for their beauty and the skill and ingenuity of their makers but also in the context of the cultures from which they sprang.

This handsome book includes American Indian masterpieces ranging from clothing and ceremonial artifacts to weapons and cradles. ... Read more

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high-quality illustrated book on Native American objects
The 100 Native American artifacts are grouped according to the major geographical areas of the Plains and Eastern Woodlands; Northwest Coast and Western Alaska; and Southwest and California. Each section is introduced by an overview of the art and objects of the tribes in the broad areas. Collectors, dealers, and the like will appreciate the full-page color photos in this large-size (13" x 12") book capturing the details of the jars, masks, blankets, garments, masks, carved objects, kachina dolls, baskets, and other items. The art-book quality along with the exceptional color photos and the informative introductory essays make this an especially attractive and useful introduction or reference for Native American art and cultural objects. ... Read more

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A comprehensive study of the beadwork of the Crow Indian Nation from 1805 to contemporary times. Between 1907 and 1916 Dr. Robert H. Lowie made repeated visits to the Crow Agency Reservation to study their traditional customs and, as a result, published the first paper on Crow Indian beadwork.Based on this research, in 1918 William Wildschut began to collect specimens for the Heye Foundation.

His work went far beyond merely collecting specimens. He asked questions from his Crow associates and in 1927 produced a manuscript for the Heye in which he concluded that "true Crow beadwork was not borrowed from the neighboring Western Sioux, nor from any other Tribe. It possessed a distinctive character of its own."

In 1957, Dr. John C. Ewers, a truly enjoyable expert, made further inquiries and this book was produced providing an illustrated description and history of Crow Indian Beadwork from the time of its first mention by the fur trader, Francois Larouque, in 1805.Included are sections on Men's Dress Clothing (Shirts, Leggings, Feather Bonnets, Vests, Gauntlets, and Feather Fans); Women's Dress Clothing (Dresses, Leggings and Belts); Robes and Blankets; Moccasins; Riding Gear (Saddles, Head Ornaments, Horse Collars, Cruppers and Saddle Blankets); Containers (Saddle Bags, Quivers, Gun Cases, Sword and Lance Cases, Cradles, Belt Pouches, Ration Ticket Pouches, Mirror Pouches, and Pipe and Tobacco Pouches); Characteristics of Crow Indian Beadwork (Beadwork Techniques, Beadwork Designs, and Bead Colors); Symbolism in Crow Beadwork; History of Crow Beadwork and a bibliography.

18 illustrations; 48 B&W photographs; 3 pages in full color. ... Read more

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New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, (n.d.) Softcover + 25 loose b/w plates housed in an illustrated oblong folder. An exhibition catalog including a checklist of all 289 items. Objects range from Prehistoric American Indian examples to such contemporary artists as Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Maija Grotell, Peter Voulkos, Eva Zeisel and Win Ng. ... Read more

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Graced with more than 150 stunning full-color photographs, Legacy commemorates the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of SAR by highlighting ninety objects from its world-renowned collections of Indian art. The more than 11,000 objects from 48 Native American tribes; pottery, paintings, textiles, jewelry, baskets, kachinas, leather work, and beadworkserve as resource and inspiration for contemporary Native American artists, researchers, and the general public. ... Read more

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This new and gorgeously-illustrated book presents important information on Pueblo, Navajo, Rio Grande and Northern Mexican weaving styles of the Southwestern U.S. region. Traditional and modern styles of blankets, clothing and rugs are identified and explained in detail with brief accounts of some of the old trading posts that sold them. Unique to this book are discussions of family styles with active weavers today. The author continues to work with modern weavers interested in preserving old styles and has gained personal insight to the origins of both old and new designs which she shares, for the first time, with her readers. The illustrations are drawn largely from the famous and outstanding collection of southwestern weavings at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of Ne Mexico where the author has been curator for many years. She knows these weavings well and clearly explains them. 194 color plates and 385 beautiful black and white pictures present these outstanding weavings clearly for close inspections. All weavers, collectors, dealers, and historians will welcome this new study. ... Read more