Traditional Crafts from Native North America (Culture Crafts) [Hardcover]

Florence Temko (Author), Randall Gooch (Illustrator), Robert L. Wolfe (Photographer)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Culture Crafts

Provides instructions for making such traditional North American Indian crafts as dreamcatchers, beadwork, and cornhusk dolls.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 4-7--While Temko clearly knows her stuff when it comes to making crafts, she knows somewhat less about Indians. After describing a craft of a particular group of Native people, she then gives detailed instructions for reproducing the article from easily obtainable materials. Projects range from Lakota dreamcatchers, Blackfeet beadwork, and Iroquois cornhusk dolls to Seminole patchwork, Pueblo storyteller dolls, Chumash baskets, and Haida totem poles. However, "Southwestern cascarones" are regional decorations influenced by the strong Mexican presence in the area and are not traditional crafts. The trendy dreamcatcher is Ojibwa, not Lakota. Beadwork was done throughout the country; there is nothing in the description that pertains to the Blackfeet in particular. Although the author takes care in most of the book to speak of Native peoples and their crafts in the present tense, the Iroquois are relegated to historical figures no longer present in their homelands of New York state. The instructions for doing home or classroom versions of these crafts are thorough, but will require some adult assistance. A metric conversion chart, a minimal glossary, a marginally useful list for further reading, and a redundant index round out this optional purchase.

Lisa Mitten, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Lerner Publications (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822529343
• ISBN-13: 978-0822529347
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,222,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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