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Describes masks used by North American Indians to heal sickness, appease spirits, pray for rain, and for other purposes. Includes directions for making several types of masks.
This book contains eight masks based on authentic Indian designs.
An authentic array of traditional Native American masks appear in this fun-filled coloring book. Well-researched and accurately rendered, they derive from ritual and recreational traditions of American Indians across the continent, from the eastern Iroquois to the western Hopi and the northwestern Kwakiutl and Tlingit. Each mask is accompanied by a caption identifying its motif and tribe of origin. Dover Original. 30 full-page black-and-white illustrations. 5 color illustrations on covers.
Eight masks based on authentic North American Indian designs: Hopi corn man, bird mask, Aztec fire god, five others. Complete assembly directions.
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.
The archaeologists/authors continue to entertain an avid international audience with their rousing historical epic of adventure, triumph, and heartbreak of the pre-Columbian peoples who struggled to make this great continent their home.
Spirit Faces presents a collection of 75 masks, all in vivid colours by 23 of the best native North American artists working on the Northwest Coast today. These beautiful and powerful works of art reflect a culture rich in its relationships with the natural environment and its enduring mythology. They depict creatures - eagle, killer whale - as well as natural elements and forces - moon, weather - humans and supernatural beings, such as Thunderbird or Chief of the Undersea.