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INDIAN CRAFT sa AMULET sa INDIAN BASKET sa KACHINA DOLL sa NAVAJO RUG sa TOTEM POLE xx ARTS & CRAFTS Bead work for the gods. Huichol bead art. A look at the richly beaded gourd bowls made by Huichol Indians of Mexico as offerings to the gods. Photos show how to make a Huichol-style rukuri, a bead-decorated gourd bowl. Beaded bear claw necklace. Claw base is wrapped in a beaded leather wrap and forms the pendant on a necklace strung with seed beads and several accent beads. Four pages of projects based on American Indian designs. Included are embroidery instructions for a blanket and a sweater, baskets to crochet, Mimbres pottery motif pillow-toys, two styles of Trapunto pillows, a needlepoint belt, a box covered with designs, a Navaho fabric necklace and a beaded pillow. Indian hair ornaments. Bucktail Roach headpiece. How to make wild goose wing feather bustle for Medicine Dancers. How to make two table decorations and scoops for a Lacrosse game for an Indian Festival. Make an Indian dreamcatcher wall hanging to keep nightmares away. Tlingit "Haida" mask to carve. A copy of a museum piece in an "eating-beaver" motif has abalone-shell inlay. Mask is not intended to be worn. Western dreamcatcher wall hanging features mock wool, beads and feathers. Kerf-bent boxes. Woodworking techniques and carving tools of the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians. Kerfing and bending a four sided box from a single board 1-1/2" thick. Paint Indian designs on sandstone and mount the stone on a wooden background to make a decorative plaque. Sandals of the Anasazi. Analysis of the three techniques used to weave Indian footwear. Cloth of the Anasazi. Analysis of the techniques used and information on how to replicate Anasazi textiles. Hopi embroidery weave technique explained. "Ancient Spirits Roaming the Cliffs" wall hanging combines Hopi embroidery weave and overshot weaving. How to apply turquoise chips to the skull of a cow (or other animal) to form artwork with an "Indian" theme. Making authentic concha belts. An ancient art. How to make Indian arrowheads from obsidian and regular glass using a chipping and flaking technique. The resulting arrowheads are used for decorations and jewelry. Flint-knapping: The old hard way. Flint-knapping is the art of making tools and weapons from flint-stone by percussive-pressure flaking various size pieces and chips off larger working pieces. Carving an Indian-style pipe from pipestone (catlinite). Making a mandella (Indian war shield). A circular piece of leather decorated with an Indian motif is placed inside a ring and trimmed with leather thongs, beads, feathers, and animal skins. Eagle spirit mandella (Indian war shield). A circle of leather features the head of a fierce bald eagle laced onto a hoop and decorated with leather thongs, feathers, etc. Discovering the Indians of the Southwest. Making leather pottery. Instructions for making a four-sided leather pot, stand and base. Southwestern-inspired crafts. (1) A variety of plain baskets are painted with geometric motifs to look like handwoven Indian designs. (2) Patchwork table runner, 18"x36". (3) Crocheted afghan, 57"x60", is worked in traditional Mexican blanket patterns. (4) Painted wooden Navajo Indian children and tiny sheep figurines. Build a zapotec stool. Wooden stool with a V-shape seat is based on a stool used by the Zapotec Indians of southern Mexico. Porcupine quillwork: an American Indian heritage. Wrap yourself in rabbit. How to make Paiute-style blankets. Three needlepoint designs mimic the Micmac Indian designs used in porcupine quillwork. Bentwood Indian boxes. How to cut, steam and bend a piece of wood so that it forms the four sides of a box. Uses a technique developed by northwest coast Indians. A top, bottom and decorative painted designs (patterns furnished) complete the box. Three woodcarvings of the Northwest Coast Indians are characterizations of the otter, beaver and owl. How to weave the ridge twill of the Hopi Indians. Three Hopi and Zuni Indian games that are fun and easy to make. Chilkat spinning as practiced in the 1800s by the Chilkats, a band of Tlingit indians living in the Pacific Northwest. How to prepare the cedar bark strips and spin both warp and weft by rolling bark and wool fibers on your thigh. From baskets to blankets. Geometric twining returns to the Northwest Coast. Description of the two-strand twining techniques used to reproduce an old-style Kotlean robe. Kiowa-style dress made from buckskin. Includes tips on strip and edge beading. The watertight case. Techniques used by the North-west American Kwakiutl Indians to fabricate elegant boxes. The four sides are made from a single piece of wood by kerfing the plank, steam bending, and fastening the one corner joint with wooden pegs. Fold-out sheet of Indian symbol transfers. (1) Navajo Rainbow Figure, Corn Girl, Corn Plant and Road Runner. (2) Zuni cloud, rain and lightning designs and the Zuni Sun God. (3) Cochiti Bird, Owl and Thunderbird. (4) Hopi Bird. (5) Ute mountain and valley border. | |||||||||
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