Provides hands-on activities, text and facts in an introduction to the history and culture of Native American tribes throughout North America.

The Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska is winding, turbulent, and deep--an ancient, thousand-mile-long sea route, rich in dangerous whirlpools, eddies, rips, and races. Here flourished the canoe culture of the Northwest Indians, with their fantastic painted masks and complex iconography and their stories of malign submarine gods and monsters. The unhappy British ship Discovery, captained by George Vancouver, came through these open reaches...

"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until one of her colleagues destroyed...

A collector's identification & value guide.

"Native American art encompasses a multitude of handicrafts, including rugs, baskets, pottery, and wood carvings. Creativity had no limits. Fortunately, many artifacts and remnants still exist that showcase the boundless ingenuity of past as well as modern-day Native American artists, many of whom continue the time-honored traditions of their people. This valuable volume, a support to cultural studies, highlights stunning artwork of various native...

"This survey is planned to introduce the reader generally interested in art those achievements of the pre-Columbian civilization which demand attention for their beauty and power irrespective of dates and styles"

Annotations for each plate on verso of precedings plate.

Explores the Indigenous arts of the U.S. and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions.