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Colouring it Forward - Discover Blackfoot Nation Art and Wisdom - An Aboriginal Art Colouring Book (Paperback): Diana Frost Colouring it Forward - Discover Blackfoot Nation Art and Wisdom - An Aboriginal Art Colouring Book (Paperback)
Diana Frost; Contributions by Camille Pablo Russell, Kalum Teke Dan
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blossom and Nature Coloring Books for Adults - Beautiful Floral Patterns for Relaxation (Paperback): Mindfulness Coloring Artist Blossom and Nature Coloring Books for Adults - Beautiful Floral Patterns for Relaxation (Paperback)
Mindfulness Coloring Artist
R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Book of Moons (Paperback): Donna and Greg Brown A Book of Moons (Paperback)
Donna and Greg Brown
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cat Serpents - Underwater Spirits in Mississippian Pottery (Hardcover): Ron Bogg, Linda Bogg Cat Serpents - Underwater Spirits in Mississippian Pottery (Hardcover)
Ron Bogg, Linda Bogg
R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Northern Rock Art Tradition in Central Norway (Paperback): Kalle Sognnes The Northern Rock Art Tradition in Central Norway (Paperback)
Kalle Sognnes
R2,087 Discovery Miles 20 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
POW Wow Coloring Book (Paperback): Paul Gowder POW Wow Coloring Book (Paperback)
Paul Gowder
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Colouring It Forward - Discover Northern Dene Nation Art & Wisdom - An Aboriginal Art Colouring Book (Paperback): Diana Frost Colouring It Forward - Discover Northern Dene Nation Art & Wisdom - An Aboriginal Art Colouring Book (Paperback)
Diana Frost; Illustrated by Michael Fatt; Contributions by George Blondin
R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Melvin Sandoval - a very special fetish carver (Paperback): Alan W Livingstone-Smith Melvin Sandoval - a very special fetish carver (Paperback)
Alan W Livingstone-Smith
R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Carving the Native American Face (Paperback): Terry Kramer Carving the Native American Face (Paperback)
Terry Kramer
R400 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R94 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The native American face has long fascinated artists in every medium. Its strong features and deep character present a challenge and an opportunity for visual expression. In this new book, Terry Kramer offers the wood carver a method for creating realistic native American faces in wood. From layout to finish, Terry takes the carver step-by-step through the process. Each step is illustrated in full color and clearly described. A gallery of several carved faces gives the reader an idea of the variations that are possible, as well as guidelines for future carving projects.

Kitawa - The Thinking Hand and the Making Mind (Hardcover): Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti Kitawa - The Thinking Hand and the Making Mind (Hardcover)
Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti
R3,229 Discovery Miles 32 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sketching and carving both visualize and memorize a given image, but within Nowau culture the manner in which this is achieved in a canoe prowboard is entirely different than in a conventional drawing. When studying the impressive ceremonial canoes of Kitawa, in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, G.M.G. Scoditti became struck by the absolute predominance of the artist's mind in the process of creating images: all its stages, its uncertainties and experimentation, must unfold within its silent, rarefied space. Only once fully formed can the image be revealed to the village in material form. Reflecting on the absence of orthographic writing within Nowau culture, and finding parallels with poetic and musical composition, Scoditti gained further insight into the Nowau processes of creation through the critiques the Kitawan carvers made of his own fieldwork sketchbooks. Spurred on by their curiosity, the anthropologist handed over his art materials to the master carvers to make their own drawings on paper or cardboard. Traditional pigments used on the polychrome canoe prowboards were added to the unfamiliar media of watercolour, acrylic, coloured pencils and ballpoint pen. Three-dimensional ornamentation became two-dimensional as images of self-decoration and huts were added to those of prowboards. This exercise was all the more fascinating given the prohibition of drawing on the surface of the wood before carving. On return to Italy, further graphic dialogues unfolded when an architect and an artist from the tradition of Italian Abstraction responded with their own intriguingly different interpretations of the canoe prowboard and its relationship to the Nautilus shell. All these drawings are brought together in this book, along with Scoditti's own sketches from fieldwork and ethnographic collections in Newcastle upon Tyne and Rome. 'The fieldworker's or museum ethnographer's sketches are never going to be quite the same. Through the double filter of Kitawan philosophy and Scoditti's ruminations, the apparently simple triad of sketch - drawing - carving opens out into a discourse on the creative mind. The Kitawan creator - here primarily the male carver - does not have to demonstrate how he creates, and what springs from these pages have a fascination of their own. Several distinctive hands, Kitawan and Italian, reflect from different interpretive and professional vantage points on the very process of drawing through doing exactly that, drawing. The result are images that delight and challenge, sensitively assembled, beautifully reproduced. An extraordinary record of creativity, and a rare corpus of visual memorials.' - Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

Arapaho Women's Quillwork - Motion, Life, and Creativity (Paperback): Jeffrey D. Anderson Arapaho Women's Quillwork - Motion, Life, and Creativity (Paperback)
Jeffrey D. Anderson
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Since that time, however, other types of Plains Indian art, such as beadwork and male art forms, have received greater attention. In Arapaho Women's Quillwork, Jeffrey D. Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology. This book is the first comprehensive examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions. Until the early twentieth century and the disruption of removal, porcupine quillwork was practiced by many indigenous cultures throughout North America. For Arapahos, quillwork played a central role in religious life within their most ancient and sacred traditions. Quillwork was manifest in all life transitions and appeared on paraphernalia for almost all Arapaho ceremonies. Its designs and the meanings they carried were present on many objects used in everyday life, such as cradles, robes, leanback covers, moccasins, pillows, and tipi ornaments, liners, and doors. Anderson demonstrates how, through the action of creating quillwork, Arapaho women became central participants in ritual life, often studied as the exclusive domain of men. He also shows how quillwork challenges predominant Western concepts of art and creativity: adhering to sacred patterns passed down through generations of women, it emphasized not individual creativity, but meticulous repetition and social connectivity - an approach foreign to many outside observers. Drawing on the foundational writings of early-nineteenth-century ethnographers, extensive fieldwork conducted with Northern Arapahos, and careful analysis of museum collections, Arapaho Women's Quillwork masterfully shows the importance of this unique art form to Arapaho life and honors the devotion of the artists who maintained this tradition for so many generations.

Native American Artwork and Designs Adult Coloring Book Travel Edition - Tavel Size Coloring Book for Adults Inspired By Native... Native American Artwork and Designs Adult Coloring Book Travel Edition - Tavel Size Coloring Book for Adults Inspired By Native American Indian Culture and Style (Paperback)
Zenmaster Coloring Books
R174 Discovery Miles 1 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dolls of the Tusayan Indians (Paperback): J. Walter Fewkes Dolls of the Tusayan Indians (Paperback)
J. Walter Fewkes
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Native American Artwork and Designs Adult Coloring Book - A Coloring Book for Adults inspired by Native American Indian Styles... Native American Artwork and Designs Adult Coloring Book - A Coloring Book for Adults inspired by Native American Indian Styles and Cultures: owls, dream catchers, scenic landscapes, masks, and more. (Paperback)
Zenmaster Coloring Books
R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya (Paperback): Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya (Paperback)
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A nuanced look at Maya mythology, from the literary record of the Popol Vuh to a broad range of artistic depictions by ancient Maya artists

The New Advanced Placement* Art History Curriculum for the Indigenous Americas - A Teacher's Guide to the Required Andean... The New Advanced Placement* Art History Curriculum for the Indigenous Americas - A Teacher's Guide to the Required Andean Monuments (Part 1 of 3, including Mesoamerica and Native North America) (Paperback)
Rebecca R Stone
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Indian Pottery of the Southwest (Paperback, New): Marcia Muth Indian Pottery of the Southwest (Paperback, New)
Marcia Muth
R310 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This selected bibliography is a guide for both the collector and the general reader who would like additional information about Native American pottery and potters.

Drawing by Stealth - John Trumbull and the Creek Indians (Paperback): Linda McNair Cohen, Virginia Pounds Brown Drawing by Stealth - John Trumbull and the Creek Indians (Paperback)
Linda McNair Cohen, Virginia Pounds Brown
R246 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R46 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
OKLAHOMA - Land Of Many Nations (Paperback): William Johnston OKLAHOMA - Land Of Many Nations (Paperback)
William Johnston
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blackfoot War Art - Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000 (Paperback): L. James Dempsey Blackfoot War Art - Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000 (Paperback)
L. James Dempsey
R1,382 Discovery Miles 13 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When the Blackfoot Indians were confined to reservations in the late nineteenth century, their pictographic representations of warfare kept alive the rituals associated with war, which were essential facets of Blackfoot culture. Their war ethic served as a unifying force among the four tribes of the Blackfoot nation - Siksika, Blood, and North and South Piegan. In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey, a member of the Blood tribe, plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. He has mined archival resources and museum collections and interviewed many tribal members to provide a uniquely Native perspective on the importance of warrior art in Blackfoot history and culture. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment. This singular historical record of all available information on Blackfoot warrior pictography depicts painted robes; war tepee covers, liners, and doors; and painted panels. Dempsey provides descriptions and a great deal of other information about the pieces included here. His survey focuses especially on recent paintings that scholars have overlooked. In revealing changing trends in the representation of war, Dempsey skillfully weaves together pictures, people, and histories to convey a fascinating view of this warrior art from a Blood perspective.

The Sound of Drums (Paperback): Lloyd Kiva New The Sound of Drums (Paperback)
Lloyd Kiva New; Edited by Ryan S. Flahive
R1,045 R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Save R197 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes (Paperback, 2014 ed.): Donna L. Gillette, Mavis Greer, Michele Helene Hayward, William Breen... Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Donna L. Gillette, Mavis Greer, Michele Helene Hayward, William Breen Murray
R3,824 Discovery Miles 38 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and visual representations like rock art. Researchers work to understand religious thoughts and actions that prompted their creation distinct from those created for economic, political, or social purposes. Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation. Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements. Studies from a number of different cultural areas and time periods explore how rock art engages the emotions, materializes thoughts and actions and reflects religious organization as it intersects with sociopolitical cultural systems.

Crazy Old Man - An Anthology (Paperback): Harold Cohn Crazy Old Man - An Anthology (Paperback)
Harold Cohn
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Weaving Alliances with Other Women - Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (Hardcover): Daniel H. Usner Weaving Alliances with Other Women - Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (Hardcover)
Daniel H. Usner
R3,569 Discovery Miles 35 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874-1946) sustained with two non-Native women at different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point into the lives of American Indians in the segregated South. Mary Bradford (1869-1954) and Caroline Dormon (1888-1971) were not only friends of Christine Paul; they were also patrons who helped connect Paul and other Chitimacha weavers with buyers for their work. Daniel H. Usner uses Paul's letters to Bradford and Dormon to reveal how Indian women, as mediators between their own communities and surrounding outsiders, often drew on accumulated authority and experience in multicultural negotiation to forge new relationships with non-Indian women. Bradford's initial interest in Paul was philanthropic, while Dormon's was anthropological. Both certainly admired the artistry of Chitimacha baskets. For her part, Paul saw in Bradford and Dormon opportunities to promote her basketry tradition and expand a network of outsiders sympathetic to her tribe's vulnerability on many fronts. As Usner explores these friendships, he touches on a range of factors that may have shaped them, including class differences, racial attitudes, and shared ideals of womanhood. The result is an engaging story of American Indian livelihood, identity, and self-determination.

Color World Culture - American Indian Art, Pre-Columbian Art (Paperback): Swarna Mitra, Malika Mitra Color World Culture - American Indian Art, Pre-Columbian Art (Paperback)
Swarna Mitra, Malika Mitra; Mrinal Mitra
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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