Paperback: 197 pagesPublisher: Natl Museum of the Amer Indian; First Edition edition (June 1979)

Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americans

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Natl Museum of the Amer Indian

New York City in Indian Possession

Bolton, Reginald P.

Hopi Kachinas

Politics & Social Sciences

Kennard, Edward A.

Earle, Edwin

Social Sciences

Ritual in Pueblo Art: Hopi Life in Hopi Painting

Harvey, Byron

Catalog of an exhibition of Eskimo ivory carvings held at the Museum of the American Indian. The carvings range in age from the first millennium B.C. to the 20th century.  The book includes a very large selection of Eskimo carved ivories in color and black & white. A two-page map at the front of the catalog provides a key to the sources of various artifacts and the Inuit or Eskimo peoples that made them.  The text provides a history of the Inuit peoples, their society, culture, arts.

Arctic Art: Eskimo Ivory

Smith, James G. E.

Guadagno, Carmelo

American Indian Studies, Photography, American Studies

With Eagle Glance: American Indian Photographic Images, 1868-1931

MOMADAY, N. Scott

a remarkable series of paintings of Shawnee life by gifted Shawnee artist, Earnest Spybuck.Born in Tecumseh in 1883 on the Potawatomi-Shawnee Reservation, painter Earnest Spybuck (Shawnee name Maythela) was educated in the Shawnee Boarding School and at Sacred Heart Mission. For most of his adult life he was a farmer. He lived his entire life in the area that became Pottawatomie County. Earnest Spybuck began painting at around the age of six. His patron was anthropologist M. R. Harrington, who was to feature Spybuck's work in several ethnographic volumes that included material on the Shawnee and the Delaware, because of his drawing ability and his interest in portraying scenes of contemporary tribal life. From the book.

Shawnee Home Life Paintings of Earnest Spybuck

Callander, Lee A.

Slivka, Ruth

The Stuff of Dreams: Native American Dolls

Lenz, Mary Jane

Every spring along Oaxaca's Southern Sea, pilgrims visit El Pedimento, one of the many encantos known to the people of the region. Native speakers of Chontal, Zapotec, Mixtec, Chatino, and Huave arrive on foot, in taxis, and on trucks, to leave petitions and offerings at thie place of answered prayers. Almost every town in coastal Oaxaca has its encanto, a physical space where a fissure leads to an unknown, metaphysical world. In the past, conquests and disasters led to the eradication of a few encantos. Today, development and emigration threaten these enchanted places. 
In rich, evocative text and brilliant photographs, The Edge of Enchantment addresses the history and culture of the Native people of Mexico's Huatulco region, those living in the area and others who have migrated north. This extraordinary book, the result of years of passionate research, intimately describes the land as the lifeline of these people and asks what transpires when their sovereignty is threatened.

The Edge of Enchantment: Sovereignty and Ceremony in Huatulco, Mexico

History

Gonzalez, Alicia Maria

World

An exhibition catalog of the show running at the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City through 9 January 2005. Excellent color photos of basketry from the National Museum of the American Indian are accompanied by commentary by scholars and by living weavers. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Language of Native American Baskets: From the Weavers' View

Reference

Bernstein, Bruce

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