North American Indian Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Dover Electronic Clip Art

Rich selection of 391 black-and-white designs adapted from the art and artifacts of the Zuñi, Hopi, Navajo, Sioux, Comanche, Haida, Tlingit, Maya, Aztecs, and other Native American tribes. Handsomely executed designs for enhancing posters, newsletters, brochures, school reports, and more. Disk contains all items in book.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; Unknown Edition edition (July 9, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486999459
• ISBN-13: 978-0486999456
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.1 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #844,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps too diverse, June 15, 2000

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Charles Burgess (sunny FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: North American Indian Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art) (Paperback)

Great clip art. Not as many illustrations as other books in the series. Everything from Aztec to Tlingit to eastern woodland to pueblo to plains - thereby not allowing many illustrations from each as one might like. Await volume solely on Southwest! The legends in the clip art are annoying but can be easily dealt with if you can crop the graphics.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A few images from many many North American natives, March 22, 2005

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book_review_grrl "book_review_grrl" (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: North American Indian Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art) (Paperback)

This book includes almost 400 images, but only a few are taken from each of many many North American native cultures. Although they are loosely grouped together by region, the images from any one tribe or nation are scattered randomly throughout that section. Therefore, it is hard to find which images go together. The images do show the diversity of the Native American cultures, but I would have preferred that the book be organized by specific tribe/nation or by chronology. On the plus side, each image is numbered, so that it can be easily found on the accompanying CD-ROM.

The images are from the following Native American tribes and cultures: Acoma, Alabama, Arapaho, Athapascan, Aztec, Bella Bella, Bella Coola, Blackfoot, Casa Grandes, Cheyenne, Chipewyan, Choctaw, Cochiti, Comanche, Cherokee, Chitimacha, Cree, Creek, Crow, Dakota Sioux, Dene, Haida, Hawikuh, Hidatsa, Hopi, Huichol, Inuit, Iriquois, Laguna, Kaska, Kwakiutl, Maidu, Makah, Malecite, Maya, Menominee, Mescalero Apache, Mestizo, Micmac, Mimbres, Mixtec, Mohawk (Iriquois), Mohegan, Montagnais, Nahua, Naskapi, Navajo, Nez Perce, Ojibway, Onondaga (Iriquois), Otomi, Papago, Passamaquoddy, Pima, Penobscot, Potowatomi, Pueblo, Salish, San Ildefonso, Santo Domingo, Sarcee, Sauk Fox, Seminole, Shoshone, Sioux, Slavey, Tesuque, Tinne, Tlingit, Toltec, Tsia, Tsimshian, Ute, Winnebago, Yuchi, Yurok, Zapotec, and Zuni. For some of these tribes or nations, there may be as little as one image - such as for the Chitimacha; for others, there may be several - such as the Hopi.

If you are looking for Aztec, Olmec, Mayan, Mixtec, or Zapotec images, I would recommend a different book from Dover instead, called "Ancient Mexican Designs" (ISBN: 0486995283). Interestingly, though, the book "Ancient Mexican Designs" does not include any Huichol, Mestizo, or Toltec images, as does "North American Indian Motifs".

The book delivers exactly what it promised, so normally I would give it 5 stars. However, because the images are not well-organized and because the originating culture is not identified for all of the images, I have downgraded my rating to a 4.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Very Nice Basic Collection, May 2, 2004

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D. Boogaard "michigan girl" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: North American Indian Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art) (Paperback)

This is a great basic collection of Native American motifs. All images are black and white, as is indicated in the product description. The printed images provided in the book are true to size and of very high quality. Each image is identified with tribe name of origin and organized regionally. The easy-to-navigate CD, which requires no program installation, provides each image in several different file formats, including .GIF, .JPG, .TIF, .BMP and others. Because there is quite a wide variety of tribal motifs covered, there are only a handful of images from each tribe, but as an overview and basic collection, I would highly recommed it.