Download or read book Zuni Fetishes written by Hal Zina Bennett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1993-04-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zuni have traditionally used small stone carvings of animal figures as power objects and mediators between themselves and the spirit world. Any object that has special meaning can be used as a fetish. In this fascinating, informative, and beautifully illustrated guide to the fetishes of the Zuni people of New Mexico, Hal Zina Bennett explores key principles of Native American spirituality and how early Zuni teachings can benefit us all today. He provides an excellent guide to Zuni traditions and an intriguing picture of their early life, along with detailed instructions for using fetishes for mediation, reflection, and insight in modern life. He describes key fetish figures, including the Guardian of the Six Regions, their legendary meanings, and the personal qualities each figure can support and help its owner develop. In explaining the nature of fetishes and the psychological and spiritual benefits that we can gain from their use, Bennett provides illuminating cross-cultural comparisons, stimulating exercises, and journaling opportunities.
Download or read book Native American Fetish Carvings of the Southwest written by Kay Whittle and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the magic and mystery behind the animal figures or fetishes skillfully carved by artists from the Southwestern Pueblos. Pictures and text highlight the impressive variety of forms, materials, and traditional and contemporary styles available to collectors along with a price guide to current market values. It also discusses the symbolic meanings associated with each one and explains how they are "borrowed" for use by members of non-Native American cultures.
Download or read book Zuni Fetishes written by Hal Zina Bennet and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zuni have traditionally used small stone carvings of animal figures as power objects & mediators between themselves & the spirit world. In this fascinating, informative, & beautifully illus. guide to the fetishes of the Zuni people of New Mexico, Bennett explores key principles of Native American spirituality & how early Zuni teachings can benefit us all today. Provides an excellent guide to Zuni traditions & an intriguing picture of their early life, along with detailed instructions for using fetishes for meditation, reflection, & insight in modern life. Describes key fetish figures, including the Guardians of the Six Regions, their meanings, & the qualities each figure can support & help its owner develop. Provides stimulating exercises & journaling opportunities. Illus.
Download or read book Zu i Fetish Carvings written by Harold Finkelstein and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amulets Effigies Fetishes and Charms written by Edward J. Lenik and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images, or symbols. These are rendered on pebbles, plaques, pendants, axes, pestles, and atlatl weights, and are of varying sizes, shapes, and designs. Lenik draws from Indian myths and legends and incorporates data from ethnohistoric and archaeological sources together with local environmental settings in an attempt to interpret the iconography of these fascinating relics. For the Algonquian and Iroquois peoples, they reflect identity, status, and social relationships with other Indians as well as beings in the spirit world. Lenik begins with background on the Indian cultures of the Northeast and includes a discussion of the dating system developed by anthropologists to describe prehistory. The heart of the content comprises more than eighty examples of portable rock art, grouped by recurring design motifs. This organization allows for in-depth analysis of each motif. The motifs examined range from people, animals, fish, and insects to geometric and abstract designs. Information for each object is presented in succinct prose, with a description, illustration, possible interpretation, the story of its discovery, and the location where it is now housed. Lenik also offers insight into the culture and lifestyle of the Native American groups represented. An appendix listing places to see and learn more about the artifacts and a glossary are included. The material in this book, used in conjunction with Lenik’s previous research, offers a reference for virtually every known example of northeastern rock art. Archaeologists, students, and connoisseurs of Indian artistic expression will find this an invaluable work.
Download or read book Zuni Fetishes and Carvings written by Kent McManis and published by Rio Nuevo Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best general reference for collectors.
Download or read book Native American Fetishes written by Kay Whittle and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Beast Gods to Directional Guardian Spirits, this book explores the magic and mystery behind the charismatic, mostly stone, animal figures or fetishes skillfully carved by artists from the Southwestern Pueblos. Hundreds of pictures and insightful text highlight the impressive variety of forms, materials, and traditional and contemporary styles available to collectors. A price guide is included.
Download or read book A Guide to Zuni Fetishes and Carvings The animals and the carvers written by Kent McManis and published by Rio Nuevo Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Can Fetishes Help Us in our daily lives? What does the bear represent? The frog? The wolf? What powers do they contain? Noted Indian trader Kent McManis explains the different types of fetishes with special emphasis on the two major traditional types: the protective/healing group and the hunting group. He also has included dozens of new carvings to update the latest generation of artists coming into the field. Also provided are family trees for the more prominent families, along with more than two hundred fetishes in full color.
Download or read book Fetishes and Carvings of the Southwest written by Oscar T. Branson and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of carvings, usually very small, used for religious purposes by Indians in the American Southwest. Well illustrated. Minimal text.
Download or read book Zuni Jewelry written by Theda Bassman and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lovely stone inlay work in Zuni jewellery is world famous and here it is shown in popular forms for men and women. 90 brilliant colour photographs and a brand new price guide present hundreds of Zuni jewellery forms to tempt and delight collectors throughout Asia, Europe and America. Modern artists are identified.
Download or read book The Fetish Carvers of Zuni written by Marian E. Rodee and published by Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zuni pueblo in western New Mexico is renowned for its small carved stone animal figurines, or fetishes. A fetish is an object, natural or manmade, in which a spirit is thought to reside and which can be used to effect either good or evil. According to legend, when a man finds a rock that resembles an animal, he has in his possession one of the original animals turned to stone by the children of the Sun Father. Such a fetish has the soul or breath of the animal inside. In recent years the market demand for fetishes from Zuni has spurred an increase in the number of carvers. Published in 1995 and now available from UNM Press, The Fetish Carvers of Zuni studies both the history of fetishes and Zuni's major contemporary fetish carvers, their art, aesthetics, and business.
Download or read book A Guide to Zuni Fetishes and Carvings written by Susan Lamb and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the magic and mystery behind the animal figures or fetishes skillfully carved by Zuni artists. It also discusses the symbolic meanings associated with each one.
Download or read book Zuni Fetishes and Carvings written by Kent McManis and published by Rio Nuevo Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These tiny, exquisite "charm stones" make up some of the most popularand most collectedNative American art in the country. Zuni Fetishes and Carvings offers the most complete guide to these appealing objects on the market today. How can fetishes help us in our daily lives? What does the bear represent? The frog? The eagle? What powers do they contain? In this deluxe, newly combined and updated volume, noted Indian trader Kent McManis explains the different types of fetishes with special emphasis on the two major traditional groups: the protective/healing group and the hunting group. He describes the many materials that Zuni artists work with today and introduces many skilled carvers, from those who have worked in this field for many years to relative newcomers. With over 160 photos of fetishes in full color and newly updated family trees for the carvers, this volume comprises the best general reference on the subject ever available for collectors.
Download or read book Sacred Smokes written by Theodore C. Van Alst and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians.
Download or read book Zuni Fetish Carvers written by Kent McManis and published by Wheelwright Museum of American Indian. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue features selections from the Wheelwright Museum's superb collection of Zuni fetishes amassed by Leonora Curtin, mostly between 1925 and the late 1940s. The pieces were made by the first generation of Zuni carvers to create the fetishes for a demanding commercial tourism market. It includes carvings by Theodore Kucate, Leekya Deyuse, Teddy Weahkee, Leo Poblano, David Tsikewa, and Morris Laahty.
Download or read book Totems to Turquoise written by Kari Chalker and published by . This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest celebrates the timeless beauty and power of the jewelry of the American Southwest and Northwest Coast, two regions with distinguished traditions of visual creation whose contemporary artists continue to work in the best of those traditions while expanding upon them to make jewelry an art form expressive of individual vision and creativity." "Lavishly illustrated, both with historical photographs and a wealth of new photography commissioned for this publication, Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest will be an important resource for students, scholars, designers, and indeed for anyone who loves beautiful and well-made objects. 185 illustrations, including 150 plates in full color. »--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Download or read book Spirit in the Stone written by Mark Bahti and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American fetishes: charming animal carvings, indigenous art, or objects of power? Fetishes have different meanings to different Native peoples. Behind each carving are traditional stories and beliefs. In this new revised edition of Spirit in the Stone, well-known dealer and scholar of Native American art Mark Bahti explores the roles the carvings play, the artists who create them, the history of fetish carvings through the twentieth century, the stories about the animals and other objects, as well as the materials favored by carvers.
