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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Native American art Native American art Hans-Ulrich Sanner,Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.,Peter Bolz "Catalog and exhibition both begin with a prologue that looks critically at the cliche images that still influence the public conception of North American Indians. The less-well-known German contribu… OL12863545W
Dakota Women's Work Dakota Women's Work Colette A. Hyman A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakota women. Mary Eastman Faribault, born in Minnesota, … OL16308338W
Arapaho Women's Quillwork Arapaho Women's Quillwork Jeffrey D. Anderson "More than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Since that time, however, other types of P… OL16645900W
Micmac Quillwork Micmac Quillwork Ruth Holmes Whitehead "The Micmac Indian women of Eastern Canada and New England have long been noted for their exquisite work in porcupine quills, particularly their mosaics of quills on birchbark. 'Micmac Quillwork', th… OL5513250W