Collecting Southwestern Native American Jewelry

Bahti, Mark

D. McKay Co.

Come to know painting, silverwork, turquoise, beadwork, pottery, baskets, Navajo sandpainting, fetishes, Hopi katsinas, and Navajo rugs. Become familiar with 39 Southwestern Indian cultures histories, governments, and separate fascinating celebrations. Native ceremonies are still performed by the Indians of the Southwest and is a tribute to their way of life and the strength of their religious beliefs.

Southwestern Indians: Arts & Crafts - Tribes - Ceremonials

Politics & Social Sciences

BAHTI, Tom

Social Sciences

KC Publications. Inc.

This book is intended to serve the casual visitor to the Southwest as an introduction to the better known crafts, and to provide an understanding of the contributions of Southwestern Indians to the field of crafts and fine arts.

Southwestern Indian Arts and Crafts

Arts & Photography

Kc Pubns

Pueblo Stories and Storytellers

Treasure Chest Pubns

A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings provides the best introduction to the religious images created by Navajo medicine men as part of traditional curing ceremonies. These carefully prescribed designs depict ancient Navajo gods and heroes to whom medicine men appeal to help restore their patients to harmony. Every shape and color has to be just right lest irremediable harm come to medicine man and his patient. 
Although many ancient sandpaintings designs and their accompanying chants have been lost to time, others remain a vital part of Navajo religious practice and have emerged as a dynamic art form. Navajo artists now incorporate heroes, gods, traditional design icons, and landscape features from their homeland into stunning, contemporary. 
In A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings, noted Native American arts authority Mark Bahti describes the history and development of this healing art. For each of the more than sixty individual sandpaintings included, Bahti provides the legend from which the design originated. He also explains how contemporary artists honor the traditions of their elders while breaking new ground for this fascinating art form.

Navajo Sandpainting Art

Joe, Eugene Baatsoslanii

Branson, O. T.

Photography & Video

Consumers Guide to Southwestern Indian Arts and Crafts

Storyteller figures represent one of the more recent developments underway in Native American art today.The continued demand for Mark Bahti's delightful book about these figures and the traditions from which they spring is a testament to their enormous appeal. Bahti has gathered together a collection of storyteller figures to show trends in the art form with text introducing each pueblo and its stories. Pronunciation notes help in reading them aloud, and photographs illustrate the process of making the dolls. Pueblo Stories and Storytellers remains the most comprehensive and reasonably priced introduction to the subject on the market! Photographs throughout

Pueblo Stories and Storytellers (Second Edition)

Rio Nuevo Publishers

A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings

Baatsoslani Joe, Eugene

History & Criticism

Rio Nuevo Pub

Do you know who is referred to as ""Reared in the Mountains"" lest he think hes being called? Or what the connection is between rabbits and the Underworld? Noted Indian arts-and-crafts expert Mark Bahti has compiled a fascinating reference to answer hundreds of questions such as these about Native American fetishes and carvings. Part I introduces the tribes and their traditional uses of fetishes. Part II contains the stories and legends associated with the animals and other figures represented by fetish forms. Part III covers the materials used. To many of us, it's a collection of ""folk tales"" --where Badger gave corn its many colors and where Black Body used crystals to make the stars, which his helpers clean and replace each day. To America's indigenous people, it is the real world. Anyone who has glimpsed the depth of meaning in the traditions and cosmologies of their cultures will find a wealth of information in this richly illustrated handbook.

Spirit in the Stone: A Handbook of Southwestern Indian Animal Carvings and Beliefs

Treasure Chest Books

A superlative guide to traditional and contemporary Navajo sandpaintings.Few art forms are more significant to Navajo religious beliefs than the sandpainting, or ikaah. Sandpaintings play a major role in Navajo ceremonies, assisting healers to cure ailments by summoning the gods’ aid to restore harmony to both mind and body. In this clear, brief, yet profoundly informed text, Mark Bahti reviews the history of the sandpainting from its original, and continuing, sacred purpose to the purely artistic creations produced by some sand painters for sale today. With his collaborator, Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe, Bahti explains the meanings of the images and colors in sandpaintings and tells some of the traditional stories that they represent. Navajo Sandpaintings will enlighten both the amateur and the connoisseur of Navajo art. 67 color illustrations

Navajo Sandpaintings (Revised)

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