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Author
Language
English
Description
Native American arts and crafts are enjoying renewed appreciation and increasing recognition as a vital part of America's cultural heritage. This volume, a magnificent collection of full-color photographs and incisive commentary, presents the richness and celebrates the diversity of this centuries-old tradition and places it within a larger historical and social context. The artistic tradition explored in this book emerged as the snows of the last...
20) Native Americans
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The traditions and folk-memories of the native inhabitants of North America are as rich in symbolism as any body of religion and legend in the world. In spite of terrible sufferings, the various peoples have drawn sustenance from complex and subtle myth, ritual and imagery. In this beautiful introduction to the symbolic thought and art of an often heroic struggle for survival, the principal icons and ceremonies of the major native peoples are illustrated...