Gourds with Southwestern Motifs
Gourds with Southwestern Motifs

Author: Bonnie Gibson

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781600595486

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Gourds -- with their infinite variety of unusual shapes and sizes, and their smooth surfaces -- have provided a perfect canvas for artists in the American Southwest over many years. It's easy to carve, paint, and stain them, and add embellishments like beads and feathers. These beautiful projects, including rainsticks, masks, and bowls, reflect the traditional designs, techniques, and colors that are indigenous to this region.

Gourds
Gourds

Author: Bonnie Gibson

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781402725227

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Gourds -- with their infinite variety of unusual shapes and sizes, and their smooth surfaces -- have provided a perfect canvas for artists in the American Southwest over many years. It's easy to carve, paint, and stain them, and add embellishments like beads and feathers. These beautiful projects, including rainsticks, masks, and bowls, reflect the traditional designs, techniques, and colors that are indigenous to this region.

Gourd Pyrography
Gourd Pyrography

Author: Jim Widess

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781402745027

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A guide to gourd pyrography--using heat to create works of gourd art--that discusses gourd prep and work basics, provides step-by-step instructions for several designs and techniques, and presents secrets from fifty artists.

Native American Beadwork
Native American Beadwork

Author: Theresa Flores Geary

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781402740626

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Beadwork has been steadily gaining popularity among crafters, and no area of the genre garners more interest than the intricate designs of the Apache, Comanche, and Lakota peoples of the American Southwest, who use their designs to relate legends and pass down tribal lore. Here are 15 authentic projects using such traditional stitches as the flat and circular peyote stitches, the Comanche weave, free-form feathering, and more. Each project is accompanied by a rich explanation of how the colors, shapes, and combinations of materials interact to tell a story. Abundant color photographs and illustrations guide the reader through this unique art form.

Deaf Artists in America
Deaf Artists in America

Author: Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl

Publisher: Dawnsign Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Presents a collection of black-and-white and full-coclor photographs, drawings, and paintings by a number of deaf artists in America and includes illustrations and descriptions of each selection.

Creative Native American Beading
Creative Native American Beading

Author: Theresa Flores Geary

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781600595325

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The 19 highlighted jewellery and accessory projects include a Huichol Lace Sun Catcher and a Ladder Chain Bracelet (perfect for beginners) along with advanced-level projects like the Waterbird Pendant and Sun Rosette Medallion.

Big Book of Bird Houses & Bird Feeders
Big Book of Bird Houses & Bird Feeders

Author: Thom Boswell

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781402713736

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Big, beautiful, and filled with breathtaking photographs and unique projects, this is one book every bird lover simply must have. It’s got everything, from design considerations to construction basics to a jaw-dropping assortment of feeders, baths, and houses to make. Information on the planning stages explains how to choose the right home for a particular bird, discourage unwanted guests, and mount and site the piece. There’s advice on feeding habits, too, but the main feature is the incredible projects, which will delight humans as much as our feathered friends. They include a charming Dutch Treat home with a windmill; a Cuckoo Condo; a rustic Bird Cage Feeder made from grapevines; and even a swimming pool complete with diving board.

Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert
Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert

Author: Wendy C. Hodgson

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2001-03

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780816520602

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"Food Plants of the Sanoran Desert includes not only plants such as gourds and legumes but also unexpected food sources such as palms, lilies, and cattails, all of which have provided nutrition to desert peoples. Each species entry lists recorded names and describes indigenous uses, which often include nonfood therapeutic and commodity applications. The agave, for example, is cited for its use as food and for alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, syrup, fiber, cordage, clothing, sandals, nets, blankets, lances, fire hearths, musical instruments, hedgerows, soap, and medicine, and for ceremonial purposes. The agave entry includes information on harvesting, roasting, and consumption - and on distinguishing between edible and inedible varieties.".

Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art
Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art

Author: Hope B. Werness

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780826414656

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This lavishly produced voulume is the first reference work to focus on the symbols, meaning, and significance of art in native, or indigenous, cultures.

Library Journal
Library Journal

Author: Melvil Dewey

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13:

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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.