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Describes how people harvested plants for food and medicine and provides background, step-by step instructions, and detailed diagrams for crafting tools, shelter, clothing, and other devices with the native materials and techniques.

Native American Crafts and Skills is an excellent introduction to the study of Native American crafts and outdoor skills. This book not only describes the skills Natvie Americans have cultivated over hundreds of years, but explains in step-by-step detail, through over 200 illustrations by the author himself, how to create all kinds of Native American handiwork.

Gives instructions for drawing a variety of artifacts used and made by Indian tribes in North America. Includes teppes, baskets, canoes, feather headdress, maskes, pottery, and others.

Includes 500 illustrated examples of native North American art, including some 30 illustrations of art from the Arctic.

"Survival skills of the Native Americans is a fascinating, practical guide to the techniques that have made the indigenous people of North America revered for their mastery of the wilderness. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at making rafts and canoes, constructing tools, and living off the land"--

"Details how Native American culture evolved, the artifacts produced on the continent and the ways they were made, and the techniques of decoration and embellishment that utilized a variety of disparate natural commodities that depended on geographical necessity and abundance"--Jacket flap.