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Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
This stunning collection of 284 rare designs is a bonanza for artists and craftspeople seeking distinctive patterns with a South American Indian flavor. The carefully adapted, authentic motifs include animal and totemic designs, geometric and rectilinear figures, abstracts, grids, and many other styles in a wide range of shapes and sizes.
10) Maria Martinez
Author
Series
Publisher
Dillon Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Pueblo Indian woman who became renowned for her skill in pottery.
Author
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
Description
The Laboratory of Anthropology, the Museum of New Mexico's anthropological research unit, presents selections from its famed Southwest Indian art and artifacts collection. Essays by noted scholars in the field illuminate the change and continuity over two thousand years of Native American basketry, textiles, pottery, and jewelry, while developing the connections between prehistoric, historic, and contemporary trends and traditions.
Author
Publisher
Detroit Institute of Arts
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
"The nineteenth century saw major changes in the U.S. frontier and in the interactions among the peoples living in its borderlands. The Old Northwest territories, which became Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, were opened to European American settlement, disrupting a native economy well adapted to the fur trade. Eventually the Great Lakes tribes were consolidated in reservations or pushed beyond the Mississippi to settle adjacent to Plains Indians...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Allows children to interact with and develop a greater understanding of Latin American art through colorful reproductions, brief biographies and criticism of the artists and questions that facilitate conversation.