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Summary: Understanding the stone craved animals of Southwest Tribes
Review: A great overview of fetishes, charms, and amulets made by Southwest Indian tribes. I like the mix of stories from Indian's folklore and the power from the fetish would provide to user. Now my collection of fetishes have now taken more meaning and understandings from Indian point of view. Also there is notes about material used in making the fetish. Why the color plays great role in fetish. Great reading and must reading if you collect fetishes from Southwest.
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Summary: why it is different than other titles on the same topic
Review: Besides wanting to correct some old and much-repeated misconceptions and falsehoods about Zuni fetishes, I wrote this book to cover other Southwest Indian fetish traditions as well and to provide a context for them.
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Summary: INDIAN or RED INDIAN
Review: I am just guiding some readers who might NOT be able to decide.MANY people believe that INDIAN automatically means "INDIA". Can their visual/mental senses differentiate between INDIAN and RED INDIAN? There is nothing really magical about INDIA - even the ROPE TRICK doesn't work in a populace of OVER A BILLION! Cheer up folks! THINK FIRST - and then - GET DEEPER INTO YOUR SEARCH!!..
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Summary: INDIAN or RED INDIAN
Review: I am just guiding some readers who might NOT be able to decide. MANY people believe that INDIAN automatically means "INDIA". Can their visual/mental senses differentiate between INDIAN and RED INDIAN? There is nothing really magical about INDIA - even the ROPE TRICK doesn't work in a populace of OVER A BILLION! Cheer up folks! THINK FIRST - and then - GET DEEPER INTO YOUR SEARCH!!..
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Summary: As Much of a Mini Art Book as Guidebook
Review: Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, columnist and reviewer for MyShelf and author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered Here they are!
Five guidebooks,all part of a series, that look and feel more like art books. Five guidebooks so closely related that they become a library or set suitable to give as a gift to anyone who lives in, travels in or just loves the Southwest. Published by Rio Nuevo Publishers, an imprint of Treasure Chest Books, these slender paperbacks have a different polish than most guidebooks, both outside and in. The covers have a satin-finish feel. The pictures in each are full color and so well done you may feel less tempted to buy a piece of art in any one of these categories�or more tempted as the case may be. There are diagrams and maps in full color and other information like histories for the artists, the genealogy of related artists, etc. Anything that will help a reader/art lover to understand the subject better. Bibliographies, indexes, suggested readings and pronunciation guides are also included as needed.
Mostly, these are helpful well-written guides by knowledgeable authors like Kent McManis, Mark Bahti, and Robert Jeffries. You�ll find them on Amazon and other sites that sell books under their separate titles and here they are: A Guide to Zuni Fetishes and Carvings, both Volume I and Volume II
A Guide to Hopi Katsina Dolls
A Guide to Navaho Weavings
A Guide to Navaho Sandpaintings
(Carolyn Howard-Johnson�s first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards.
Her newly released Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remember has won three.)
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Summary: As Much of a Mini Art Book as Guidebook
Review: Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, columnist and reviewer for MyShelf and author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered Here they are!
Five guidebooks,all part of a series, that look and feel more like art books. Five guidebooks so closely related that they become a library or set suitable to give as a gift to anyone who lives in, travels in or just loves the Southwest. Published by Rio Nuevo Publishers, an imprint of Treasure Chest Books, these slender paperbacks have a different polish than most guidebooks, both outside and in. The covers have a satin-finish feel. The pictures in each are full color and so well done you may feel less tempted to buy a piece of art in any one of these categories'or more tempted as the case may be. There are diagrams and maps in full color and other information like histories for the artists, the genealogy of related artists, etc. Anything that will help a reader/art lover to understand the subject better. Bibliographies, indexes, suggested readings and pronunciation guides are also included as needed.
Mostly, these are helpful well-written guides by knowledgeable authors like Kent McManis, Mark Bahti, and Robert Jeffries. You'll find them on Amazon and other sites that sell books under their separate titles and here they are: A Guide to Zuni Fetishes and Carvings, both Volume I and Volume II
A Guide to Hopi Katsina Dolls
A Guide to Navaho Weavings
A Guide to Navaho Sandpaintings
(Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards.
Her newly released Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remember has won three.)
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Summary: As Much of a Mini Art Book as Guidebook
Review: Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, columnist and reviewer for MyShelf and author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered Here they are!
Five guidebooks,all part of a series, that look and feel more like art books. Five guidebooks so closely related that they become a library or set suitable to give as a gift to anyone who lives in, travels in or just loves the Southwest. Published by Rio Nuevo Publishers, an imprint of Treasure Chest Books, these slender paperbacks have a different polish than most guidebooks, both outside and in. The covers have a satin-finish feel. The pictures in each are full color and so well done you may feel less tempted to buy a piece of art in any one of these categories'or more tempted as the case may be. There are diagrams and maps in full color and other information like histories for the artists, the genealogy of related artists, etc. Anything that will help a reader/art lover to understand the subject better. Bibliographies, indexes, suggested readings and pronunciation guides are also included as needed.
Mostly, these are helpful well-written guides by knowledgeable authors like Kent McManis, Mark Bahti, and Robert Jeffries. You'll find them on Amazon and other sites that sell books under their separate titles and here they are: A Guide to Zuni Fetishes and Carvings, both Volume I and Volume II
A Guide to Hopi Katsina Dolls
A Guide to Navaho Weavings
A Guide to Navaho Sandpaintings
(Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards.
Her newly released Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remember has won three.)
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