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Civilization of the American Indian volume 75
Summary
Primitive color sketches of the old days of hunting and rituals, and of the artist's days of captivity at Fort Marion, Florida, 1875-78.
4) The Kiowas
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Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 63
Summary
A sociological study of the tribe once considered to be the most dangerous of the Plains Indians.
12) The Missouri
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Series
Summary
The Missouri is a story in itself. It is a thoroughly masculine river, a burly, husky bulldozer of a stream, which has taken on the biggest job of moving dirt in North America. It has been well-named the Big Muddy.
17) Chippewa music
Author
Series
Da Capo Press music reprint
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin volume 45
Bulletin volume 45, etc
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin volume 45
Bulletin volume 45, etc
Author
Summary
A member of a remarkable family of artists, Thomas Moran was born in England in 1837 and died in Santa Barbara, Califronia, in 1926. Married to Mary Nimmo, herself an artist, he turned to illustration in order to support his growing family. Throughout his long and adventurous life, he refused to be swayed by changing fashions in art, and while younger artists of the twentieth century considered his techniques outmoded, his work commands good prices...