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Pages: 312
Authors: Jennifer McLerran
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-16 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. B
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf
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Pages: 286
Authors: Emily L. Moore
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-20 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although t
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Pages: 164
Authors: Ann Prentice Wagner
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Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Public Works of Art Program, created in 1934 against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The 55 paintings in this
Women and Ledger Art
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Authors: Richard Pearce
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Ledger art has traditionally been created by men to recount the lives of male warriors on the Plains. During the past forty years, this form has been adopted by
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving
Language: en
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Authors: Jennifer McLerran
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-10 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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A New Deal for Navajo Weaving provides a detailed history of early to mid-twentieth-century Diné weaving projects by non-Natives who sought to improve the qual