This is the first comprehensive text on Indian Horse masks, their usage, history, and symbolism. Forty five masks are featured from museums and private collections in this full color, stunningly beautiful coffee table book. Included are many original, historically accurate, drawings and paintings of both masks and decorated horses. There is also a chapter by Winfied Coleman on the Shamanic decoration of horses and warriors for battle.
Presents an illustrated examination of the role of horses in Native American culture and history, providing information on the depiction of horses in tribal clothing, tools, and other objects.
Here is the first book to cover all aspects of Native American equine tack/equipment as a single subject. It focuses on the equipment used by 19th century tribal men and women of North America. The dominant role of horses in these peoples' lives was reflected in the beautiful, practical, and artistic accoutrements made to decorate their prestigious and powerful animals. With informative text and over 200 beautiful color photos, readers will explore geographical locations and tribal characteristics, techniques, and materials used to create often beautiful horse gear. Equipment covered includes bridles, saddles, saddle blankets, saddlebags, breastcollars and cruppers, quirts, masks, and equine imagery in utilitarian objects. Cultural areas explored include the Plains, Prairie, Great Basin, Plateau, and the Southwest. Information essential to understanding variations in forms and decorative motifs amongst tribes, including trade relations and familiarization and varying geographical conditions, have also been discussed.
Thirty disguises, all identified and ready to color, include a mask used by a performer in an ancient Roman tragedy, a Death Mask from Mexico, a Chinese Lion Mask for New Year's celebrations, a water spirit disguise from New Caledonia, as well as masks from Guatemala, India, Nigeria, Egypt, Peru, Borneo, and Burma (Myanmar).
Students will develop their geometry skills as they study the shapes and patterns in Native American art. This book seamlessly integrates the teaching of math and reading, and uses real-world examples to teach geometry concepts. Text features include a glossary, an index, captions, and a table of contents to increase students vocabulary and reading comprehension skills as they interact with the text. The rigorous practice problems, math charts and diagrams, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what theyve learned to their everyday lives. Math Talk provides an in-depth opportunity for further problem solving.
Students will develop their geometry skills as they study the shapes and patterns in Native American art. This book seamlessly integrates the teaching of math and reading, and uses real-world examples to teach geometry concepts. Text features include a glossary, an index, captions, and a table of contents to increase students’ vocabulary and reading comprehension skills as they interact with the text. The rigorous practice problems, math charts and diagrams, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what they’ve learned to their everyday lives. Math Talk provides an in-depth opportunity for further problem solving.
A trip to a museum becomes an adventure in learning geometry! Students will explore mathematics in a meaningful way by examining the geometric shapes and patterns of American Indian artwork. This 6-Pack of grade 4 math readers builds literacy and math content knowledge while introducing students to new concepts and vocabulary terms like parallelogram, rhombus, quadrilateral, scalene, isosceles, and equilateral. Let's Explore Math sidebars, the Problem Solving section, and the mathematical charts and diagrams provide extensive opportunities for students to practice what they have learned. Text features such as a glossary, index, bold print, and a table of contents increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. The DOK-leveled Math Talk section includes questions that facilitate mathematical discourse and activities that students can respond to at home or school. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
Discusses the traditional adornment of North American Indians, covering the furs of the subarctic, the shells of the woodland tribes, the plateau area beadwork, the Northwest Coast jewelers, and the turquoise of the Southwest.
A trip to a museum becomes an adventure in learning geometry! Students will explore mathematics in a meaningful way by examining the geometric shapes and patterns of American Indian artwork. This 6-Pack of grade 4 math readers builds literacy and math content knowledge while introducing students to new concepts and vocabulary terms like parallelogram, rhombus, quadrilateral, scalene, isosceles, and equilateral. Let's Explore Math sidebars, the Problem Solving section, and the mathematical charts and diagrams provide extensive opportunities for students to practice what they have learned. Text features such as a glossary, index, bold print, and a table of contents increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. The DOK-leveled Math Talk section includes questions that facilitate mathematical discourse and activities that students can respond to at home or school. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
"As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were wearing such masks. I was trying to determine, consciously and unconsciously, what people do in response. So, among people walking along the roadway, and people on motorbikes, I saw no one with masks. Even among the official crossing guards outfitted with yellow flags and banners, none. All showed bright and calm. What was I hoping for exactly? The guilty conscience again. But then it was time for school to start. We began to see groups of kids on their way to school. They were wearing masks." Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a multifaceted literary response to the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that devastated northeast Japan on March 11, 2011. The novel is narrated by Hideo Furukawa, who travels back to his childhood home near Fukushima after 3/11 to reconnect with a place that is now doubly alien. His ruminations conjure the region's storied past, particularly its thousand-year history of horses, humans, and the struggle with a rugged terrain. Standing in the morning light, these horses also tell their stories, heightening the sense of liberation, chaos, and loss that accompanies Furukawa's rich recollections. A fusion of fiction, history, and memoir, this book plays with form and feeling in ways reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory and W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn yet draws its own, unforgettable portrait of personal and cultural dislocation.
