CP 877 - ART OF CHEROKEE  NEW!

Susan Power aptly examines the role of Cherokee Indian art and offers a significant contribution to an understanding of Cherokee culture and traditions. Carefully compiling available literature and coupling it with her own extensive research, Power elicits a very approachable balance in her writing.  Her study of early works and the influence these pieces have on contemporary artists is very informative.  Power's efforts to present so engaging a story will enhance our knowledge of the Cherokee's creativity in the face of adversity and garner respect for Cherokee Indians."  --Andrew L. Stout, University of Oklahoma School of Art.  Hardbound. 145 pages.  Many color illustrations.  $28.95 + s/h

WH-605- INDIAN CRAFTS & LORE

The classic Ben Hunt work filled with easy to do craft projects, this is a classic work that many "old timers" will remember from their early days of learning American Indian craft work. 112 page and hundreds of color images. $ 17.95 + s/h

CP 869 - THE ULTIMATE BASKET BOOK  NEW!

An incredible collection of 43 baskets to make, with every skill level in mind.  Such popular designs as Bean Pot, Cherokee Comb basket, Gourd vessel, Double Wall basket, Choctaw Pouch, and many more.  Learn techniques of weaving, coiling, plaiting, and twining with a variety of materials such as honey suckle, grapevine, wisteria, and even vine rattan.  8.5" X 10", 192 pages, color photos and easy to use diagrams, soft cover.  $ 23.95 + s/h

CP 798 - BASKETRY (Weekend Crafter Book with 18 baskets to make)

18 easy and beautiful baskets to make. Full color easy-to-follow pictoral instructions will have you making baskets in just days. Teaches you what materials, tools, and techniques to use for making a variety of baskets. 8 1/2 x 11, 80 pages, paperback. $ 16.95 + s/h

CP 794- FLOWING WATER:  WEAVING A CHEROKEE DOUBLEWEAVE BASKET  By Jackie Carlson  $ 27.95 + s/h

CP 779 - NATIVE AMERICAN BEAD WEAVING   NEW!

Use basic equipment & simple skills to craft 15 beautiful Native American inspired beaded objects. Book instructs you on several different items such as bracelets, choker’s, rings, earrings, different fringe styles. 112 pages, paperback, color photos.  $ 16.95 + s/h

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CP 870 - BEADING IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITION NEW!

Projects & Techniques From the Southwest Filled with authentic, striking projects for you to make, from jewelry to baskets. An extraordinary book that features desgns evocative of tribal legends and cultural tradtions such as Bear earrings, medicine wheel, and powwow perfume bag. 8 X 11, 128 pages, full color illustrations, bead design graphs, index, paperback. $ 16.95 + s/h

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CP 879 - THE BEADING OF MY HEART   NEW!

Directions for making your own mini-frame loom, beading techniques and 52 beautiful beading pattern designs such as barn owl, birch bark canoes, gone fishin’, tatanka wakan, and many many more. 8 x 11, 110 pages, black and white illustrations and pattern guides. $ 16.95 + s/h

OS08069- BEADING FOR THE FIRST TIME 

by Ann Benson
They've enticed you at stores: seed beads, tubular bugles, or fancy drops, ovals, and flowers. Now work with them! Arranged in a Q & A format, this handbook covers all the basics: different types of beads, tools, materials, techniques for 18 easy projects and 14 more challenging ones. Incorporate knotting, use pressure crimps and stitching to make ornaments, jewelry, needlepoint, a wrapped candleholder, and more!  8 1/2 X 10. (all in color) $ 23.95 + s/h

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CP 286 -  AMERICAN INDIAN BEADWORK

by W. Ben Hunt.

This practical how-to, hands-on manual to doing beadwork is typical of Ben Hunts clear and complete instructional books containing directions for beading stitches, making and stringing a loom, using bead designs and appliqué beading. If you want to see Native American beadwork designs, and the traditional colors that were used, this is the book. Photos and Illustrations. Patterns. Soft Cover. 132 pages. 8" x 11"

$ 17.95 + s/h

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OS04862- AUTHENTIC AMERICAN INDIAN BEADWORK 

By Stanley-Millner 

An excellent "How to Do It" illustrated book with 50 Charts for Bead Weaving and 21 Full-Size Patterns for Appliqué.   $ 6.95 + s/h

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CP670- LOOM BEADING  

By Susan McNeil  

Make thousands of beautifully beaded crafts with this great 'How To' book. Illustrated throughout. No project is too big with easy to follow instructions.  $ 7.95 + s/h

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CP121- FINGER WEAVING: Indian Braiding Book  

By Alta R. Turner  $ 7.95 + s/h

Get Started Right with A Finger Weaving Kit!

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CP182 - MAKING INDIAN BOWS AND ARROWS
by Douglas Spotted Eagle Wallentine

This exciting edition includes all you need to know to make powerful and attractive Indian bows with an easy-to-follow text. The reader is shown how to use both primitive and modern techniques of bow and arrow making. Making bow strings with techniques that are understandable to even the beginning bowyer; and shooting the way that Indians did years ago. 116 photos, 5 charts and diagrams, this book will be invaluable to anyone interested in traditional weapons of the American Indian, their material culture and/or early Americana. 119 illustrations. Paperback, 98pp, .29" x 10.97" x 8.56". $ 12.95 + s/h

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WH 5369-3 IDENTIFY BY DESIGN: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses

by Emil Her Many Horses

A world-renowned collection of Native American dresses held by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. The book, edited by award-winning beadwork artist and NMAI curator Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota), presents a fascinating array of Native women's clothing from the Plains, Plateau, and Great Basin regions of the United States and Canada, dating from the 1830s to the present and including dresses, shawls, moccasins, belts, bags, and hair accessories.

In addition to superb color plates of the clothing, Identity by Design contains lively and perceptive essays by Her Many Horses, artist and professor Colleen Cutschall (Oglala Lakota), and scholar and author Janet Catherine Berlo. Striking historical and contemporary photographs depict Native life and Native women and their attire. The beautiful creations included in this book—whether made of deerhide embellished with beadwork and fringes or wool ornamented with silk ribbons and metal danglers—reveal the artistic vision of many individual makers as well as different regional styles and tribal designs. They also reflect Native history and identity during a time of intense social and cultural change.

The words, insights, and memories of a number of contemporary Native women artists who design and make dresses enrich the text of Identity by Design and add a fascinating new dimension to our understanding of this magnificent attire. The book accompanies a major exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Beautiful color photographs highlight the 160 pages with expert explanations of dress construction. Bringing the early dresses into the contemporary powwow scene are interviews and photos of some of today's top dancers and crafts people. Hardcover.  $ 24.95 + s/h

CP218- HOW TO MAKE CHEROKEE CLOTHING

by Donald Sizemore

Excellent resource.  One of a kind book with illustrations throughout and detailed, easy-to-follow instructions. $ 22.95 + s/h 

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WH-200-900 COSTUMES OF THE PLAINS INDIANS

By Clark Wisseler

This important work from 1915 by the famous anthropologist Clark Wissler is a full-color, comparative study of the forms and distribution of Plains Indian men's shirts, coats, and women's dresses featuring specimens in the American Museum of Natural History.  In this modern version, actual color photographs have also been added to supplement many of the original black and white illustrations.  Any student wishing to discover tribal and regional characteristics of Plains war shirts, dresses, and coats will find this a valuable resource.  64 pages.  Produced in an 8 1/2" x 11" includes 36 detailed color photos. Softcover. $ 20.95 + s/h

CP536- CHEROKEE DANCE AND REGALIA

by Donald Sizemore

Cherokee ceremonial dances and costumes are described and illustrated in full color in this beautiful "how-to-do" book by Donald Sizemore, author of How To Make Cherokee Clothing. Paperback, 175pp. Cherokee Publications $ 21.95 + s/h

OS09436- TRADITIONAL CLOTHING OF NATIVE AMERICANS

By Evard Gibby.  With Patterns and Ideas for Making Authentic Traditional Clothing, Making Modern Buckskin Clothing and a Section on Tanning Buckskins and Furs. 

A new and exciting book for those interested in traditional Native American dress and for anyone who wants to know how to make use of their own deerskins and other animal skins, in either a traditional or modern manner. Extensive, well researched and fascinating to read! This book first explores the Traditional Dress of Native Americans in the nine major cultural areas of North America, with an emphasis on everyday or "work" clothes. Individual items of clothing are then discussed in detail. Among the many items included are skirts & aprons from a variety of materials, dresses of many styles, capotes, robes, leggings, breechclouts, shirts, breastplates, parkas, hats, moccasins cradleboards and sandals. Selected pieces of dress clothing, primarily from the Plains, are discussed. Included are drawings, patterns and ideas for making replicas of primitive clothing. There are also sections on how some people currently live in buckskin year round and surprising facts about native clothing.  Buckskin Today describes clothing made in modern times in both period and modern styles. In addition bags, pouches and parfleche are covered and there are tips for sewing and cleaning buckskin. Tanning Buckskins and Fur emphasizes Indian brain tanning methods including dry-scrape and wet-scrape techniques. Coloring and dyeing hides are described. Other tanning methods included are Ivory® soap buckskin and acid tanning techniques. Over 100 references on these subjects are provided. Paperback, 176pp $34.95 + s/h

WH - 4940-1 Scarlet Ribbons: American Indian Technique for Today's Quilters by Helen Kelley  

Classic work on American Indian ribbon work. Includes explanations of Plains style ribbon work, templates for various ribbon work patters, easy to follow instructions for multiple ribbon work patterns for dresses, straight dance suits, shawls and many other projects, color photos, easy to follow sewing and quilting instructions. 134 color photos, bibliography, soft cover, 140pp. Our video "Ribbons of the Osage" (sold out) makes a good companion to this classic work.  Our Straight Dance clothing pattern also has excellent instructions.  SKU:4940-1  $22.95

WH - BOO-12 INDIAN CLOTHING OF THE GREAT LAKES

Back in Print and better than ever! Added is explanations of Woodland designs, beliefs and symbols of the Great Lakes Region. But the real beauty of this books are the designs for men and women clothing during the 1740s to 1840s. Profusely illustrated with 100+ illustratons, 140pp. $16.95 + s/h

WH-5390-01 119th CENTURY PLAINS INDIAN DRESSES

Finally, a book devoted to women's dresses and accessories! Covering the northern, central and southern plains, as well as the plateau, this comprehensive craft guide shows how to recreate both cloth and hide dresses of the 19th century, as well as the accessories worn with these dresses. 100 professional illustrations, 82 color photos, 25 historical photos and paintings, 104pp. $ 21.95 + s/h Regular price: $25.00.