This color illustrated book features turquoise from different mines around the world, and what local artisans have done with the stone. It describes the history of each mine and how to tell the stones from each mine apart, with valuable information on different jewelers' styles (say traditional Navajo vs. Zuni carvings), and how to tell imitation and treated and natural turquoises apart.

Turquoise,the Gem of the Centuries

Branson, O. T.

Arts & Photography

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Fetishes and Carvings of the Southwest

Many pictures to aide in the process of identification of fetishes

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Van Nostrand Reinhold (Trade)

The Hopi Indians of the Southwest wear colorful masks and costumes to impersonate spirit beings called Kachinas. The sketches for coloring illustrate some of these Kachinas.

Kachina Coloring Book

Children's Books

Biographies

Treasure Chest Pubns

Many Indian tribes of North America perform dances in colorful masks and costumes.  The sketches for coloring illustrate some of these dancers.

Indian Dancers Coloring Book

The Navajo Indians live on a large reservation in the states of Arizona and New Mexico. These sketches for coloring illustrate their lifestyle of ranching, farming, and arts &amp; crafts.

Navajo Indian Coloring Book

This is a sketch book of dowsing devices. They have attempted to picture a large number of interesting dowsing devices that illustrate the attempts of dowsers to receive answers to their querries from the great reservoir of knowledge.

Dowsing Devices

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oscar Branson

A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings provides the best introduction to the religious images created by Navajo medicine men as part of traditional curing ceremonies. These carefully prescribed designs depict ancient Navajo gods and heroes to whom medicine men appeal to help restore their patients to harmony. Every shape and color has to be just right lest irremediable harm come to medicine man and his patient. 
Although many ancient sandpaintings designs and their accompanying chants have been lost to time, others remain a vital part of Navajo religious practice and have emerged as a dynamic art form. Navajo artists now incorporate heroes, gods, traditional design icons, and landscape features from their homeland into stunning, contemporary. 
In A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings, noted Native American arts authority Mark Bahti describes the history and development of this healing art. For each of the more than sixty individual sandpaintings included, Bahti provides the legend from which the design originated. He also explains how contemporary artists honor the traditions of their elders while breaking new ground for this fascinating art form.

Navajo Sandpainting Art

Bahti, Mark

Joe, Eugene Baatsoslanii

Photography & Video

Traditional silversmithing methods are shown in full-color photographs and illustrations with instructions in the art of making rings, chains, bracelets, and more. Spiral bound for easy viewing while working.

Indian Jewelry Making

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