Book Description
Provides step-by-step instructions for craft projects based on traditional crafts of the Tlingit, Haida, Inuit, and other Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic.
Author : Judith Hoffman Corwin
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531155943
Provides step-by-step instructions for craft projects based on traditional crafts of the Tlingit, Haida, Inuit, and other Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic.
Author : Judith Hoffman Corwin
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2002-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613595254
Provides step-by-step instructions for craft projects based on traditional crafts of the Tlingit, Haida, Inuit, and other Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic.
Author : National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 006154731X
The National Museum of the American Indian is one of the world's great conservators of cultural heritage, and its collections hold more than 800,000 objects spanning 13,000 years of history of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, from Tierra del Fuego in the south to the Arctic in the north. Drawing on new insights from archaeology, history, and art history, Infinity of Nations uses culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant objects as a point of entry to understanding the people who created them. Following an introduction on the power of objects to engage our imagination, each chapter presents an overview of a region of the Americas and its cultural complexities, written by a noted specialist on that region. Community knowledge-keepers and an impressive new generation of Native scholars contribute highlights on objects that represent important ideas or that capture moments of social change. Together these writers create an extraordinary mosaic. What emerges is a portrait of a complex and dynamic world shaped from its earliest history by contact and exchange among peoples. Illustrated with more than 200 strikingly beautiful photographs published here for the first time, Infinity of Nations opens new avenues that extend well beyond those of conventional cultural studies. Authoritative and accessible, here is an important resource for anyone interested in learning about Native cultures of the Americas.
Author : Hope B. Werness
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780826414656
This lavishly produced voulume is the first reference work to focus on the symbols, meaning, and significance of art in native, or indigenous, cultures.
Author : Susan W. Fair
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1889963798
The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from Tlingit, Aleutian Islanders, Pacific Eskimo, Athabascan, Yupik, and Inupiaq artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. Alaska Native Art examines the concept of tradition in the modern world. Alaska Native Art is a volume to treasure, a tribute to the incredible vision of Alaska's artists and to the enduring traditions of all of Alaska's Native peoples.
Author : Josephine Paterek
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 1996-03-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780393313826
A beautifully produced and illustrated (bandw) reference that offers complete descriptions and cultural contexts of the dress and ornamentation of the North American Indian tribes. The volume is divided into ten cultural regions, with each chapter giving an overview of the regional clothing. Individual tribes of the area follow in alphabetical order. Tribal information includes men's basic dress, women's basic dress, footwear, outer wear, hair styles, headgear, accessories, jewelry, armor, special costumes, garment decoration, face and body embellishment, transitional dress after European contact, and bibliographic references. Appendices include a description of clothing arts and a glossary. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Marlys Johnson
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2004-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836856118
An introduction to the history, culture, and people of the many Indian tribes that inhabited the region from the Arctic through the northern interior of Canada to coastal Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
Author : Carole A. Barrett
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
Three volume set covers all aspects of American Indian culture, past and present.
Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195335791
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Author : Loren Ruth Lerner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1646 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780802058560
Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.