Download or read book Cut and Make Festival Masks from India written by R. M. Lehri and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-07-16 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A demon mask worn by dancers of Himachal Pradesh; a Ravana (demon) mask worn in northern India; a brightly decorated Kathakali dancer's mask from Kerala; a Narasimha mask from Orissa; and 2 others. 6 full-color masks on 6 plates. Identifying captions. Instructions.
Download or read book Cut and Make Festival Masks from India written by R. M. Lehri and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A demon mask worn by dancers of Himachal Pradesh; a Ravana (demon) mask worn in northern India; a brightly decorated Kathakali dancer's mask from Kerala; a Narasimha mask from Orissa; and two others. 6 full-color masks on 6 plates. Identifying captions. Instructions.
Download or read book Cut and Make North American Indian Masks in Full Color written by A. G. Smith and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1989-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight masks based on authentic North American Indian designs: Hopi corn man, bird mask, Aztec fire god, five others. Complete assembly directions.
Download or read book Girl and Boy from India Paper Dolls written by R. M. Lehri and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dress two charming youngsters in authentic festival costumes, including typical apparel worn during celebrations in the Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and other Indian provinces. 2 dolls, 32 full-color costumes.
Download or read book Cut and Make North American Indian Masks in Full Color written by A. G. Smith and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains eight masks based on authentic Indian designs.
Download or read book Paper Mask Making written by Michael Grater and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This do-it-yourself guide gives detailed instructions for making paper masks — how to cut, fold, score, model, paint, and decorate them. Make masks of people, clowns, birds, and animals: lion, cat, dog, fox, bear, monkey, more. 93 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Cut and Make Indonesian Masks written by A.G.Hazen Smith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 masks with religious, folk and theatrical origins: Wayang Golek, Wayang Topeng, and Ragil Kunig masks of Java, 3 more.
Download or read book MASKS FOR THE DANCE HIMACHAL PRADESH Collection Tom van Groeningen written by Tom van Groeningen and published by AMB Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more than a hundred tribal masks in this publication are a selection of the extensive collection of the Dutchman Tom van Groeningen (1948) of the extraordinary masks from the Kullu Valley in the State of Himachal Pradesh in North-West India. Van Groeningen is not an average collector of tribal art. He chooses on the basis of beauty and provenance and focuses on the stories and people behind the masks. He puts the objects into the context of the religious and cultural settings of the region in India. ‘All my masks have danced,’ he says with a twinkling in his eye. What drives Van Groeningen? How did his collection grow? What makes his masks so appealing to the imagination? These are the questions that are answered in this rich publication.
Download or read book Tribal Masks and Myths written by Robin D. Tribhuwan and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has made use of masks in dance rituals, dramas, folk songs, temples and different Socio-Cultural contexts. In South India Masks are Worn by Kathakali Dancers, to depict good and evil characters from Hindu epics. Masks find an important place in Hindu festival celebration such as Dasera, Durga Puja and Ram Navami. Tribal societies in India too use have Mask characters. Some of the tribes using masks are Bhils, Garasia, Bison Horn Madia, Santhals, Oraons etc. However, there is only one tribal town in India, that depicts 54 tribal mask characters. This town is known as Jawhar, from Thane district, in the state of Maharashtra. These 54 characters are taken in a Procession during a Mask Festival called Bohada . The festival of Bohata is popular among the Koknas, Thakars, Mahadev Kolis, Malhar Kolis, Dhor Kolis, Katkaris, Warlis and few caste groups of Thane and Nasik District. Contents: Concept and Definitions of Masks, Research Methodology, Tribal Village, People and Mask Makers, Bohada: The Mask Festival of Bharsatmet, Bohada: The Mask Festival of Bharsatmet, Bohada: As Interpreted by the Non-tribals, Summary and Conclusions.
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Download or read book The Ancient Indians written by Jessica Cohn and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The civilization that developed near the Indus River thousands of years ago was one of the first successful cultures. The people of India have always celebrated the rich history of their ancestors. Various religions like Buddhism, ancient texts such as the Vedas, and the natural environment including monsoons are still a major influence on the India of today. In this book, readers learn about some of the most important concepts surrounding Indian culture. They'll read about the caste system, the Sanskrit language, the significance of Indian dress, and more. They'll have the opportunity to reflect on essential ideas while completing engaging craft activities featured throughout the book. Fascinating photographs of India complement this valuable and accessible text.
Download or read book They Do What written by Javier A. Galván and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-volume work covers many traditions, customs, and activities Westerners may find unusual or shocking, covering everything from the Ashanti people's funeral celebrations to wife-carrying competitions in Finland. In Maharashtra, India, a tradition exists to throw newborn babies off the tops of buildings. At the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand, some people ritualistically pierce their cheeks and faces with swords and knives. How did these surprising customs come to be? From camel wrestling to cheese-rolling competitions to a tomato-throwing festival, this fascinating single-volume encyclopedia examines more than 100 customs, traditions, and rituals that may be considered strange and exotic to U.S. readers. This work provides high school and undergraduate students with a compelling and fascinating exploration of world customs and traditions. Comprising entries by anthropologists, religious leaders, scholars, dancers, musicians, historians, and artists from almost every continent in the world, this encyclopedia provides readers a truly global and multidisciplinary perspective. The entries explore the origins of the custom, explain how it was established as a tradition, and describe how and where it is practiced. A thematic guide enables readers to look up entries by the type of tradition or custom, such as birth, coming of age, courtship and wedding, funeral, daily customs, holidays, and festivals.
Download or read book The Art Museum as Educator written by Barbara Y. Newsom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 2255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Download or read book Books to Build On written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invaluable grade-by-grade guide (kindergarten—sixth) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children. Books to Build On recommends: • for kindergartners, lively collections of poetry and stories, such as The Children’s Aesop, and imaginative alphabet books such as Bill Martin, Jr.’s Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Lucy Micklewait’s I Spy: An Alphabet in Art • for first graders, fine books on the fine arts, such as Ann Hayes’s Meet the Orchestra, the hands-on guide My First Music Book, and the thought-provoking Come Look with Me series of art books for children • for second graders, books that open doors to world cultures and history, such as Leonard Everett Fisher’s The Great Wall of China and Marcia Willaims’s humorous Greek Myths for Young Children • for third graders, books that bring to life the wonders of ancient Rome, such as Living in Ancient Rome, and fascinating books about astronomy, such as Seymour Simon’s Our Solar System • for fourth graders, engaging books on history, including Jean Fritz’s Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, and many books on Africa, including the stunningly illustrated story of Sundiata: Lion King of Mali • for fifth graders, a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream that retains much of the original language but condenses the play for reading or performance by young students, and Michael McCurdy’s Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass • for sixth graders, an eloquent retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the well-written American history series, A History of US . . . and many, many more!
Download or read book Children s Books in Print 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Festivals In Indian Society 2 Vols Set written by Usha Sharma and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cut and Make Egyptian Masks written by A. G. Smith and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 authentic, carefully researched masks: King Tut, lioness (the goddess Sekhmet), falcon (Horus), crocodile (Sebek), and a jackal (Anubis). Ideal for Halloween, costume parties, school plays. Easily assembled. Instructions.
