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"More than 40 color photographs feature contemporary dream catchers and artifacts with informative captions that identify and comment on the different patterns, their significance and history. Dream Catchers features the work of Native artist Nick Huard who creates dream catchers in his studio in Kahnawake outside of Montreal."--
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Indian Arts is a fascinating introduction to the arts and crafts reflected in the material culture of North American Indians. Knowledge of the skills and techniques developed by the various tribes, and the fine materials produced provides a key to understanding the rich diversity of native cultures. Packed with information and authentic full-color illustrations, this handsome guide will be welcomed by everyone interested in American cultural history....
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A beautiful tablet-like mystery stone has been found by the Shenandoah River, near Berryville, Virginia. Underneath its brown-orange patina, peck-marked shapes reveal a beautiful crystalline heartstone underneath and intriguing designs.⍾⍾The author takes you on a tour of the stone, relating how its natural form with markings makes for designs which resonate with Eastern Woodland cosmology of early America. This masterwork can serve as a primer...
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Amateur, or avocational, archaeologists have made extraordinarily important contributions to our knowledge of prehistory. In order for them to do so, it is essential that they be able to identify the artifacts their discoveries and that, when they find sites that warrant intensive investigation, they report them to those who maintain state records and who can refer them to well-qualified professionals.
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Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future generations. In Reading...
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In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson's Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had remained ever since. Exhibiting the shirts at the museums...
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My Home As I Remember describes literary and artistic achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Metis women across Canada and the United States, including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico. Their voices and creative expression of identity and place are richly varied, reflecting the depth of the culturally diverse energy found on these continents. Over 60 writers and visual artists are represented from nearly 25 nations, including writers such...
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Amid the armed conflict and broken treaty signings of nineteenth-century America, the highly successful horse culture of the plains, the Sioux Indians clutched to their way of life. Composed of three major groups and spread over six states, the Sioux represent a community divided. Much of their traditional world view and custom was overshadowed by the white man's quest for the dominance of Western civilization. Still, a highly developed sense of tribal...
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Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning is a significant contribution to the field of archaeology – a contribution in iconography studies that has gradually been coming into its own. Iconography is a rich and fascinating field, as applied to the complex, and heretofore enigmatic, imagery on many ancient Pre-Columbian artifacts. When viewed through the lens of early ethnographic records and American Indian oral...
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Grounded in the maintenance of balance and the pursuit of peace, the Cherokee Nation has always had a difficult task. In The Cherokee accompany these Principle People on their quest – from the first 1,000 years of harmony preceding conflict with DeSoto in 1540 to the present-day resurgence of tribal unity. The Cherokee's pre-contact world was peaceful and often unrecognized or misrepresented by American history books. It encompassed a deep reverence...
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Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers--from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Frank O'Hara to Jean Stafford--lived and worked on the East End of Long Island years before it assumed an alternate identity as the Hamptons. The home they made there, and its effect on their work, is the subject of these searching, lyrical vignettes by the critic and poet Robert Long.
Pollock moved to Springs because he thought he wanted to...
12) Kevin Red Star
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Kevin Red Star is not only one of the most acclaimed Native American artists, but he is also a visual historian of his people, the Crow. His art celebrates, commemorates, and perpetuates the Crow culture.
Gibson and Leaken showcase the talents of Red Star in this collection of artwork while also exploring his motivations. Red Star's childhood on the reservation, his time at the Institute of American Indian Arts and San Francisco Art Institute, and...
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Archetypal images from world art and architecture are overlaid upon a monumental stone formation found at Penn Bluff near Addison Alabama. The resonance created by both proportion and meaning helps explain the strong feeling of Presence found at the site. Come, take a journey in synchronicity, in which an apparent natural stone formation is matched with artistic creations from an array of civilizations.
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The exploration of a monumental stone formation at Penn Bluff, Alabama continues with using ImageJ software. Here, 3-D surface plots of the stone formation reveal different aspects of the site.⍾⍾What we find is that mystery and beauty are intertwined, as we try to discern the nature of the mystery form before us.⍾⍾Come explore this site with your third eye and become tuned to the essences found at Penn Bluff.
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A rich visual testament to the practical and cultural power of the dugout canoe, balanced in its description of meaning and method.⍾⍾Tla-o-qui-aht master canoe maker Joe Martin, in collaboration with former museum curator Alan Hoover, describes the meaning and method behind one of the most vivid and memorable symbols of the Northwest Coast: the dugout canoe. Both artform and technological marvel, the chaputs carries Indigenous cultural knowledge...
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Unusual designs found in a stone formation near Addison, Alabama are explored by using DStretch software, a popular rock art tool. Beauty and potential Indigenous connection are suggested when subtle shades are amplified or turned into varied colors. The pairing of heightened contrast and/or coloring with a Haiku also seeks to penetrate the deeper meaning of the forms present. Come and experience this view of the stone formation at Penn Bluff and...
17) Me Artsy
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There are a few questions that professional artists get asked regularly: Where do you get your ideas? How did you get started? And be honest-are you really in it for the money? Following the highly successful Me Funny and Me Sexy anthologies, Me Artsy answers these eternal questions and more. With essays from fourteen First Nations artists from a variety of disciplines, the collection provides insight into the paths that led each artist to pursue...
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A second mystery stone has been found by the Shenandoah River near Holy Cross Abbey in Northern Virginia. There are powerful suggested forms, made by either Indigneous hands, natural and/or sacred forces, or some combination of the three. Take a look yourself and see what is suggested to you and whether human or sacred forms are evoked.
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From the flood plain of the Shenandoah, Introducing a second Mystery Stone which may have Indigenous markings. Its traits resonate with the first Mystery Stone, including a distinctive head area, a pipe-like form, a skeletal pelvic design, and a plant. Take a closer look and see what forms are evoked in this sculpted quartz cobblestone, which looks sliced in half and resembles a mask.
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A celebration of one of Native America's most beautiful art traditions, this volume is based on the author's lifetime of study. It features nearly 300 royalty-free examples, ranging from 13th-century geometric art of Pueblo to contemporary designs. Includes motifs from pottery, basketry, beadwork, masks, dolls, sand paintings, and blankets. 50 plates.
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