Foster, John Elgin:Buffalo
- Paperback 1995, ISBN: 9780888642370
Hardcover
Dover Publications, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. 8x0x11. This ample, carefully researched volume contains more than 360 royalty-free designs, each meticulously rendered from embellishmen… More...
Dover Publications, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. 8x0x11. This ample, carefully researched volume contains more than 360 royalty-free designs, each meticulously rendered from embellishments on Indian blankets, pottery, blankets, clothing, carvings, paintings, metalwork, or other artifacts in various museums and private collections. The illustrations span 2,000 years — from prehistoric pipe bowls carved in stone that date back to 100 B.C., to 20th-century painted pottery designs that are based on traditional motifs.Florals, hunting scenes, stylized plants and animals, mythological figures, geometrics, double-curve motifs, feather designs, pictographs, border patterns, and many other designs have been selected and reproduced from the painted pottery of the Hopi, Hohokam, and Pueblo Indians; Navajo blankets and silverwork; wampum belts, quill work from Métis skin coats; parfleches (rawhide containers), buffalo hides, and ceremonial pipes of the Sioux and other Plains Indians; antler combs of the Susquehannock and Seneca Iroquois; carved and painted masks; Chilkat blankets, spindle whorls, baskets and basket hats from the Northwest Coast; and many other examples of native North American art.In addition to the wealth of authentic pictorial images, the author has provided an informative introduction outlining the principal developments in Indian arts and crafts with particular reference to the techniques used in pottery, basketry, weaving, and more. Notes on the designs give dates, dimensions, present locations of the artifacts and other data, while a bibliography suggests books for further reading.Artists and craftspeople seeking genuine Indian designs will find this easily affordable, royalty-free volume an abundant source of timeless images. Students, teachers, art and cultural historians, as well as anyone interested in Indian art will welcome this impressive array of fine designs produced by the native people of North America., Dover Publications, 1987, 3, Denison & Company, Incorporated, T. S. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Denison & Company, Incorporated, T. S, 2.5, Denison & Company, Incorporated, T. S. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Denison & Company, Incorporated, T. S, 2.5, T. S. Denison & Company, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., T. S. Denison & Company, Inc., 1973, 2.5, T. S. Denison & Company, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., T. S. Denison & Company, Inc., 1973, 2.5, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Laminate starting to peel, spine creased. 1958 Trade Paperback. xvi, 345 pp. "The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S. government for sustenance. In this history of the Blackfeet, historian John C. Ewers relied on his own experience living among the Blackfeet as well as archival research to tell of not only the events that have so drastically affected the Blackfeet way of life, but also the ways the Blackfeet have responded, adapting and preserving their culture in the face of a changing landscape., University of Oklahoma Press, 1958, 3, Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 1995 University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1995. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight edge and tip bumping. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded, spine is not creased r split; text is secure in binding. 304 pp 8vo. This book chronicles the epic drama of the settling and development of the High Plains- a nostalgic look at our rural past and its endangered future. This book examines the past 100 years of life on the Hight Plains through the prism of the author's own hometown, McDonald, Kansas (pop 200). A look at a culture and way of life being lost. A clean very presentable copy., University Press of Kansas, 1995, 4, University of Nebraska Press, 1962. Trade paperback. Very Good. The Hunting of the Buffalo, originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gradual extermination is chronicled by E. Douglas Branch, who drew on rich materials, including Indian legends, old letters and diaries, and tales of frontier travelers. No one has ever written more memorably about the great herds, their habits and haunts, their importance to the Indians, their discovery by awed whites, their decimation by huge cultural and economic forces., University of Nebraska Press, 1962, 3, US: University of Alberta Press, 1992. Paperback. Good. Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a specia l place in our culture and imagination. In this prize-winning collection, w riters reveal the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from prehistoric ti mes to its present and uncertain future. The heated controversy over proposals to exterminate the herds in Wood Buff alo National Park is a reminder of the significance the buffalo has acquire d, standing symbolically at the point of interaction between aboriginal and white cultures and the plains environment. In Buffalo, specialists in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and fine arts examine the invol vement of the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from its prehistoric ev olution and migration to its present and uncertain future. The importance of the buffalo in plains Indian culture is explored in essays on the development of the Cultural World Heritage Site at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and in an historical study of the last decade before the extinction of the wild herds. Its imaginative appropriation by white culture is traced through a survey of verbal and pictorial images of the buffalo from the sixteenth century to the present, culminating in a display of full-colour prints of paintings by Clarence Tillenius, the dean of Canadian wildlife painters. Five essays are devoted to issues fueling the current controversy: the history of exploitation and restoration of the wood buffalo, the factor of wolf predation in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, the scientific case for extermination of diseased herds, the importance of aboriginal involvement in decisions affecting the buffalo, and the fin., University of Alberta Press, 1992, 2.5<
