Native American Art and Crafts
Resources a the SJRCC Libraries

Arts and Crafts of the Native Americans

Call number: SAC - TT22 .M69 2007

Native North American Art - Publisher's Marketing: "This exciting new investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. The richness of Native American art is emphasized through discussions of basketry, wood and rock carvings, dance masks, and beadwork, alongside the contemporary vitality of paintings and installations by modern artists such as Robert Davidson, Emmi Whitehorse, and Alex Janvier. Authors Berlo and Philips fully incorporate substantive new research and scholarship, and examine such issues as gender, representation, the colonial encounter, and contemporary arts. By encompassing both the sacred and secular, political and domestic, the ceremonial and commercial, Native North American Art shows the importance of the visual arts in maintaining the integrity of spiritual, social, political, and economic systems within Native North American societies. "

Call number: SAC - E98.A7 B47 1998

Native American Art - Publisher's Marketing: "The art of the great masters is showcased in these lavishly illustrated books. Each volume offers a fascinating overview of the artist's career, with full-color reproductions of their work and specially commissioned biographies and interpretations."

Call number: PAL - E98.A7 K48 1997

Indian Art of Ancient Florida - Publisher's Marketing: "For thousands of years, the Indians of Florida created exquisite objects from the natural materials available to them - wood, bone, stone, clay, and shell. This stunning full-color book, the first devoted exclusively to the artistic achievements of the Florida aborigines, describes and pictures 116 of these masterpieces. A brief history of the consequences of European infiltration and later investigations by explorers and archaeologists sets the stage for consideration of the works themselves. They date from the Paleoindian period (ca. 9500-8000 B.C.) to the mid-sixteenth century and include utilitarian creations, instruments of personal adornment and magic, and objects indicating status, paying homage to ancestors, or aiding the dead in their journey into the next world."

Call number: PAL - E78.F6 P89 1996

The Complete Guide to Traditional Native American Beadwork: A Definitive Study of Authentic Tools, Materials, Techniques, and Styles - Publisher's Marketing: ""I can think of no recent book about traditional crafts which has delighted me more than Joel Monture's "Complete Guide to Traditional Native American Beadwork," All too often, books of this nature are either as boring as a repair manual, or obscure and inaccurate. Monture's triumph is that his book is not only the best and most complete book about virtually every aspect of Native American beadwork tools, materials, styles and methods, it is also clear, interesting reading. Written from the point of view of a Native master craftsman who is also a gifted teacher, and accompanied by striking full-color photos, it can serve as either a beginning point or a lifelong reference tool. I am confident that Monture's book will bring him wide praise, not only from beadworkers, but also from any person who delights in knowing more about the meaning and the history of an indigenous artform which is finally attracting the sort of critical attention and informed appreciation it deserves."
— Joseph Bruchac, author of "Keepers of the Earth"

Includes all the basic stitches and designs Contains a special section on natural tanning methods Extensive glossary Full-color photos of authentic Native American beadwork"

Call number: SAC - E98.B46 M66

North American Indian Beadwork Patterns - Publisher's Marketing: "Provides 72 charts for bead weaving, 12 full-size patterns for bead applique. All based on authentic designs of Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, other tribes."

Call number: SAC - E98.B46 S73 1995

Weaving a Navajo Blanket - Publisher's Marketing: "Foremost anthropologist studied under Navajo women, reveals every step in process. "

Call number: SAC - E99.N3 R39

The artistic tradition that in the past sustained Florida Indians helps identify them today as possessing a resilient, modern culture. In this richly illustrated account of the arts and crafts of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians, Dorothy Downs shows how artistic expression reflects and inspires history.

Emphasizing the influence of drastic cultural changes on their artistic traditions, Downs traces Seminole and Miccosukee art from the eighteenth century to the present and demonstrates both the persistence of some prehistoric southeastern Indian designs and the impact of contact with Europeans. In addition to clothing and finger-woven or bead-embroidered accessories, their arts and crafts -- most often practiced by women -- include pottery, basketry, and doll making. Their most powerful artistic expression is found in the colorful and intricate patchwork patterns that have become their 20th-century signature.

Incorporating color and black-and-white photographs of these remarkable art pieces, Downs also details the "men's work" of silver and wood crafts and chickee building in a volume sure to interest scholars and the general public alike."

Call number: SAC - E99.S28 D69 1995

Call number: PAL - E99.S28 D69 1995

Patchwork and Palmettos: Seminole/Miccosukee Folk Art Since 1820

Call number: PAL - E99.S28 B53 1990

In Kachinas in the Pueblo World, fourteen scholars examine the role of kachinas in the cultures of the Rio Grande, Zuni, and Hopi pueblos. They examine the origins of the kachina cult, trace the figure of the kachina to a Mesoamerican original, and look at the fortunes of the rain deities after the Spanish and subsequent Anglo conquests of the Pueblo homeland. In addition they discuss the transition of the kachina doll from religious to art object, and consider the role of the kachina in allowing elements of Puebloan belief to endure in the modern world. Forty-one color plates boldly illustrate the many manifestations of kachinas in the Pueblo world"

Call number: SAC - E99.P9 K33 2000

Kachina Dolls: The Art of Hopi Carvers - Publisher's Marketing: "This authoritative book "provides a clear example, easily grasped by most readers, of how Native Americans, even members of tribes rooted in centuries of tradition, adapt to modern technologies and opportunities"(Choice). Includes more than 100 photos, many in color."

Call number: SAC - E99.H7 T38 1991

Art of the Hopi: Contemporary Journeys on Ancient Pathways - Publisher's Marketing: "By the end of the book, readers will...have an appreciation of those created objects -- pottery, weavings, silverwork, kachinas, carvings, basketry, and paintings -- [and] will also have a respect for the interweaving of past and present that defines both Hopi art and the Hopi Way. -- Native Peoples"

Call number: SAC - E99.H7 J18 1998

The Pueblo Potter - Publisher's Marketing: "Penetrating study of Indian symbolism--Hopi, Zuni, etc.--and application on ceramics; also how pots are made. "

Call number: PAL - 738,B942

Weaving Arts of the North American Indian

Call number: PAL - 746.14 D637 1993

Murals in the Round : Painted Tipis of the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache Indians

Call number: PAL - E99.K5 E9 1978

Boxes and Bowls: Decorated Containers by Nineteenth-Century Haida, Tlingit, Bella Bella, and Tsimshian Indian Artists

Call number: PAL - 745 S936

The Gold of Ancient America

Call number: SAC - E 59 .A7 W3 1968

Ancient Arts of the Americas

Call number: PAL - 709.174,B979

Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America

Call number: PAL - E77 .M62 1963

Indian Art in America; The Arts and Crafts of the North American Indian

Call number: PAL - E98.A7 D57 1961