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INTRODUCTION TO QUILLWORK FROM QUILL PREPERATION TO FINISHED PROJECT.
All you will need to know to make powerful and attractive Native American bows with an easy-to-follow text together with numerous illustrations and photos.
An illustrated guide to creating jewelry using hemp, for both beginning and seasoned crafters.
Bull Calf, a young Indian boy, stands on the brink of manhood as life among the Plains Indians, from a young adult viewpoint, unfolds. He copes with the birth of a sister, the death of his mother and his "vision-seeking" experience, through which he receives his adult name -- Otter Circle. Buffalo hunts, his first horse raid, the uncertainty that comes with first love and dealing with the taunts of Badger, a young bully, are all part of his passage into the adult world.
For centuries indigenous communities of North America have used carriers to keep their babies safe. Among the Indians of the Great Plains, rigid cradles are both practical and symbolic, and many of these cradleboards—combining basketry and beadwork—represent some of the finest examples of North American Indian craftsmanship and decorative art. This lavishly illustrated volume is the first full-length reference book to describe baby carriers of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and many other Great Plains cultures. Author Deanna Tidwell Broughton, a member of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation and a sculptor of miniature cradles, draws from a wealth of primary sources—including oral histories an...
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 was, however, only one part of the project undertaken by Laura Peers and Alison Brown. Prior to the installation of the exhibits, groups of Blackfoot people—hundreds altogether—participated in special “handling sessions,” in which the...
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