Sun Dogs & Eagle Down

Sun Dogs & Eagle Down
Author: Steven C. Brown
Publisher: Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780295979472

For many years he has also produced detailed paintings that draw on his ethnographic expertise to recreate the settings in which the old Native American art objects were used."--BOOK JACKET.

Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian

Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian
Author: Barry T. Klein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 724
Release: 1993
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

**** The standard information sourcebook on the North American Indian, cited in BCL3, Sheehy, ARBA. The present revised and expanded edition (5th was in 1990) is now in a three column format. The Encyclopedia is divided into three main sections: Source Listings, Bibliography, and Who's Who. A new subsection within the Source Listings, Arts and Crafts Shops and Cooperatives, contains some 900 sources of retail, wholesale, and mail order Native American art and craft supplies. Approximately 500 in-print books have been added to the bibliography, and about 500 new biographies have also been added. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Northwest Coast Indian Art

Northwest Coast Indian Art
Author: Bill Holm
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0295999500

The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world’s artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and other artworks display the complex and sophisticated northern Northwest Coast style of art that is the visual language used to illustrate inherited crests and tell family stories. In the 1950s Bill Holm, a graduate student of Dr. Erna Gunther, former Director of the Burke Museum, began a systematic study of northern Northwest Coast art. In 1965, after studying hundreds of bentwood boxes and chests, he published Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form. This book is a foundational reference on northern Northwest Coast Native art. Through his careful studies, Bill Holm described this visual language using new terminology that has become part of the established vocabulary that allows us to talk about works like these and understand changes in style both through time and between individual artists’ styles. Holm examines how these pieces, although varied in origin, material, size, and purpose, are related to a surprising degree in the organization and form of their two-dimensional surface decoration. The author presents an incisive analysis of the use of color, line, and texture; the organization of space; and such typical forms as ovoids, eyelids, U forms, and hands and feet. The evidence upon which he bases his conclusions constitutes a repository of valuable information for all succeeding researchers in the field. Replaces ISBN 9780295951027

Indians of North America

Indians of North America
Author: Marilyn L. Haas
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Library Professional Publications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1983
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780208019806

Guide to the literature on North American Indians. Includes annotated bibliography arranged by topic and unannotated bibliography arranged alphabetically by tribe. Some Canadian material included.

Art Books

Art Books
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1562
Release: 1979
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Including an international directory of museum permanent collection catalogs.