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SILVER + STONE – Profiles of American Indian Jewelers
By Mark Bahti.  212 pages, well over a 100 photos and 49 interviews with dozens
and dozens of artists from a cross-section of tribes, styles of work, and ages. |
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Navajo Ceremonial Basketry
A well-researched, easy to read, profusely illustrated book on Navajo Cermonial
basketry by Georgiana Kennedy Simpson.   96 pages, paperback,   $19.95
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Traditional Hopi Katsinas
A very fine book on the subject, written by Jonathan S.
Day.   Lots of color illustrations with bios of 19 different
carvers. Paperback.   $14.95
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Spirit in the Stone-a Handbook of Southwest Indian Animal
Carvings and Beliefs
By Mark Bahti, was published by Treasure Chest Publications
  (1-800-969-9558)   and released February 1st of this year.
  154 pages, profusely illustrated in all color photographs,
it discusses some of the beliefs and practices of the use of fetishes
among many Southwest Indian tribes --not just the Zuni-- and includes
stories about many animals that are carved, but which are not fetishes
in many Indian religious traditions.   It includes a glossary of materials
and charts which compare and contrast early European and Indian beliefs
regarding colors, stones and animals.   The price for the book is $15.95,
including shipping and postage:   $17.00 |
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Southwestern Indian Weaving
  The cover is deceptive: this book includes the basketry of tribes
in the Southwest and Pueblo embroidery and even quilting.   It even
includes a brief discussion of prehistoric weaving traditions.
  Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Bruce Hucko, this is an excellent
introduction to the weaving traditions of Southwest Indian Tribes.   $8.95 |
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The Navajo Sandpainting Art
  Written by Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe and
Mark Bahti.   In a new format and retitled A Guide to Navajo
Sandpaintings it has been revised and expanded with many new images.
  It discusses and illustrates both traditional and contemporary work
and provides the background of Navajo religious thought necessary to full
appreciating Navajo sandpainting art.   Now 64 pages and
  $9.95 |
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Pueblo Stories and Storytellers
Written by Mark Bahti in 1987, this revised edition came out a few
years ago and remains popular.   It includes some of the history of the
Pueblo storyteller tradition, a brief discussion on how they are made and
then stories from the oral traditions of pueblos that make storyteller
figures, accompanied by photos of those figures.   56 pages.
  $12.95 |
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Southwestern Indians A compilation of three books, written by Tom Bahti   (beginning in 1966):   Southwestern Indian Arts and Crafts, Southwest Indian Tribes and Southwest Indian Ceremonials, that together have sold over a million copies to wide acclaim.   They were updated, revised and expanded by his son and published together,   for the first time in 1997,  in a hardbound edition,   a total of   216 pages.     $39.95 |
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