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The Spirit of Native America: Beauty and Mysticism in American Indian Art

By: Anna Lee Walters

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Chronicle Books: 1989-04-01

Seller ID: A24-612mf

ISBN: 0877015155

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Art and religion are two words that have no equivalents in languages spoken by Native Americans. Yet these intensely spiritual people created objects for everyday use that are unsurpassed for sheer beauty, originality, and craftsmanship. The Spirit of Native America explains this apparent contradiction in language as rich in symbolism as the art itself. Stunning full-color photography augments the text, yielding a new perspective on this often misunderstood facet of Native American culture.
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American Indian Design and Decoration (Dover Pictorial Archive)

By: Appleton, Le Roy H.

Price: $7.30

Publisher: Dover Publications: 1971-04-01

Seller ID: A8-609ri

ISBN: 0486227049

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Full text, plus more than 700 precise drawings of basketry, sculpture, painting, pottery, sand paintings, metal, much more. 4 plates in color. Text gives lore and tradition behind the designs plus Indians' own songs and stories. "A smashingly handsome book " -- "Kliatt Paperback Guide."

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Native North American Art (Oxford History of Art)

By: Berlo, Janet Catherine; Phillips, Ruth B.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1998-11-19

Seller ID: F9-720ke

ISBN: 0192842188

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

This exciting investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. The richness of Native American art is emphasized through discussions of basketry, wood and rock carvings, dance masks, and beadwork, alongside the contemporary vitality of paintings and installations by modern artists such as Robert Davidson, Emmi Whitehorse, and Alex Janvier. Authors Berlo and Philips fully incorporate substantive new rese...
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The Hopi Approach to the Art of Kachina Doll Carving

By: Bromberg, Eric

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Schiffer: 1997-01-06

Seller ID: F5-432q

ISBN: 0887400620

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The beautiful diversity of Hopi Kachina dolls is pictorially presented to show past, present, and evolving styles. These carved representations of ceremonial figures taking part in celebration of the Kachina religion are highly collected by Indian and white peoples alike. This book serves to explain, compare, and present the variety of dolls that are found through color pictures, line drawings and a concise text. The carvers are given a great deal of recognition throughout the book as the discussion covers the environment, tools, and prominence of these artists. An appendix lists 495 living ar...
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The Hopi Approach to the Art of Kachina Doll Carving

By: Bromberg, Eric

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Schiffer: 1997-01-06

Seller ID: H10-6010ri

ISBN: 0887400620

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Hopi Kachina Dolls with a Key to Their Identification

By: Colton, Harold S.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press: 1970-05-01

Seller ID: V5-5022ri

ISBN: 0826301800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

A Hopi Indian will tell you that a kachina is a supernatural being who is impersonated by a man wearing a mask. Small wooden dolls carved in the likenesses of the various kachinas are used to help teach Hopi children the tribal religion and traditions. Each child receives a doll made especially for him by his male relatives. He treasures the doll and studies it so that he can learn to recognize and respect the host of spirit kachinas that people the Hopi world.

Kachinas are difficult to classify because different Hopi pueblos have different ideas about their appearance and their funct...
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Handmade in America: Conversations With Fourteen Craftmasters

By: Diamonstein, Barbaralee

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Abrams: 1983-09-01

Seller ID: Z4-202w

ISBN: 0810910837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Gifted inscription on front end

The Song of the Loom: New Traditions in Navajo Weaving

By: Dockstader, Frederick J.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Hudson Hills: 1987-05-15

Seller ID: K3-703ri

ISBN: 0933920873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Artisan Baking Across America: The Breads, the Bakers, the Best Recipes

By: Glezer, Maggie; Fink, Ben [Photographer]

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Artisan: 2000-10-02

Seller ID: H9-106w

ISBN: 1579651178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear aroun

Maggie Glezer, the uniquely qualified, totally obsessed certified bread baker who teaches and writes about bread for both laypeople and professionals, set off across the country in pursuit of the best breads and best bakers in America. And she returned with the goods--impeccable recipes that reproduce the excellence and craft of the best breads being made today, scaled down and written for a home kitchen.

But in addition to the recipes, she offers sumptuous color photography and portraits of the bakers, in words and pictures, that tell the story of America's artisan bread movement, from the...
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Folk traditions in Japanese art

By: Hauge, Victor

Price: $24.95

Publisher: distributed by Harper & Row: 1978-01-01

Seller ID: T3-720w

ISBN: 0870113607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear. In m

Indian Blankets and Their Makers (Dover Fashion and Costumes)

By: James, George Wharton

Price: $29.99

Publisher: Dover Publications: 1974-06-01

Seller ID: A27-606y

ISBN: 0486229963

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

History, old-style wool blankets, changes brought about by traders, symbolism of design and color, a Navajo weaver at work, more. Emphasis on Navajo. 254 illustrations, 32 in color.
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