Search Results: Native American from Diatrope Books

Modern Language Association Of America, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. An Introduction, several essays and essays and six bibliographies. Index. Tiger sticker on front end page.

Aperture, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 120p. Measures 9.5x11.25 inches. Features Native American photographers exploring expressions of identity in this collection of photography and accompanying essays spanning the period of 1930 to the present. Contributors include Paul Chaat Smith, N. Scott Momaday, James Luma, Luci Tapahonso, Nancy Ackerman, Pamela Shields Carroll, Winnie Poolaw, John Thomson, and others.

Philbrook Art Center, 1964. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Age tanning on cover. Black-and-white images. 37p. Index. Native American basket weavers have transformed twigs, grasses, roots, ferns, and bark into basketry that is unsurpassed for its beauty and technological skill. The Clark Field Collection at The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is recognized as one of the most comprehensive basketry collections in North America.

Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Series of essays that cohere into a spiritual autobiography. This book tells what it is like to be Native American. Book Sense 76 pick. Unclipped dust jacket. 216p.

Museum of New Mexico, 1974. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Color and black-and-white plates. 24p. Discussion of the pottery-producing pueblos and their individual pottery types and styles. Includes discussion and photo illustrations of Micaceous ware, Polished Black Ware, Polished Red Ware, Incised Ware, Matte Ware, White Ware, Hopi Ware and Poster Paint Ware.

Dover Publications, 1961. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked book. 50 plates, with full text. Nearly 300 illustrations. 101+pp. 290 Copyright-free design motifs.

Canadian Guild of Crafts, 1968. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Text in English and French. Illustrated. 47p. Includes Eskimo carvings, Eskimo songs, etc. Exhibition catalog.

Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1971. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Third Printing. Extensively illustrated. Bibliographic references. 91p. Previous owner's name inside cover. Topics include origins, religion, weaving and costume, basketry, pottery-making, stonework, jewelry, sandpainting, watercolor painting and more.

Museum of Northern Arizona, 1992. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated throughout with color and black/white images. 32p. A Kachina is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo people. Kachina rituals are practiced by the Hopi, Zuni, Hopi-Tewa and certain Keresan tribes. Cindy Young interviews Wilburt Talashoma and Loren Phillips, Bill Beaver on collecting Kachina dolls, and "Form and Function in Hopi Tithu" by Robert Breunig and Michael Lomatuway'ma.

Filter Press, 1972. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Glossary of Hopi towns. Extensively illustrated in B/W. 36p.

Philbrook Art Center, 1963. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Age tanning on cover. Age tanning on the Maria Martinez page due to two newspaper articles about her work lain into the book. 23 pages of black-and-white images following the text. Presents historical background, a brief description of pottery making and the two methods used.

Naturegraph Company, 1963. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. 15 color sandpaintings, with descriptive text about them. Photography by the Los Angeles County Museum. Edited and Foreword by Vinson Brown. 18p.

Chronicle Books, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Price crossed out on back cover. Well illustrated. A practical guide to the Pueblo Indian Villages of New Mexico and Arizona. Text and photographs by Buddy Mays. Includes the Hopi, Jemez, Laguna, San Felipe, San Juan, Taos, Zuni and others. Calendar of Indian dances and ceremonies open to the public. List of Indian pronunciations. Guide to Indian dances. Bibliography. 105p.

Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1978. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. 245p. Bibliography. PhD Dissertation from the University of Oklahoma, Graduate College, completed in 1978.

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), 1970. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Good. Unmarked. Bumped corners. 20p. Illustrated. Bibliography. One of a series of six guides to the Indians of Canada.

New Mexico Commerce and Industry Department, nd. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Small corner crease on cover. Illustrated throughout. Map. Covers Acoma, Laguna, Cochiti, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Zia, Isleta, Sandia, Taos, Nambe, Tesuque, and more. Calendar of Indian Ceremonies in New Mexico. 24p. Measures 8x9 inches.

Douglas and McIntyre, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. 111p. B/W illustrations throughout. Introduces the elements of style are introduced; the myths and legends which shape the motifs are interpreted; the stylistic differences between the major cultural groupings are defined and illustrated. Raven, Thunderbird, Killer Whale, Bear: all the traditional forms are included

Starstone Publishing, 1980. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Includes techniques and topical selections (designs, elementary mathematics, monsters, hands, animals, etc.). References. Map. 57p.

Reservation Publications, 1960. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Bumped corners. Black-and-white illustrations. 44p. Measures 6x9 inches. This was the first Motorist Guide to the Navajo Indian Reservation.

Chronicle Books, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Remainder mark. Over 100 duotone photographs from the renowned Kurt Koegler collection of Native American portraits taken between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I. Photographers include William Henry Jackson, Camillus Fly, Carleton Watkins, and Lee Moorhouse. Subjects include Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Red Cloud, Geronimo, and Chief Gall (who led the Indians to victory against Custer). 116p.