Download or read book Secrets of Eskimo Skin Sewing written by Edna Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides readers through the construction of traditional Eskimo garments from natural or man-made furs and hides. Presents step-by-step methods for making such items as mukluks, mittens, and baby booties. Also includes sections on traditional Native beadwork and basket making. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book How to Sew Leather Suede Fur written by Phyllis W. Schwebke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1974-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explicit guide to preparing, sewing, and caring for leather, suede, and fur garments.
Download or read book Once Upon an Eskimo Time written by Edna Wilder and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the sacred tradition of her ancestors, in Once Upon an Eskimo Time Edna Wilder retells a year in her Eskimo mother’s life. Wilder eloquently captures the oral storytelling traditions of her people, and she employs descriptions of the weather and harsh climates of Alaska’s Norton Sound to illustrate the hardiness of her mother’s spirit. Family values, subsistence living, and the cycle’s of life form a narrative that captures the now-vanished lifestyle along the Bering Sea. “Readers of whatever age will enjoy Nedercook’s delightful account of the day-to-day, legends, and beliefs of the ancient Eskimo village of Rocky Point.”—Ames Tribune
Download or read book Traditional Clothing of the Native Americans written by Evard H. Gibby and published by Eagles View Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the traditional dress of Native Americans in the nine major cultural areas of North America, with an emphasis on everyday or "work" clothes. Individual items of clothing are discussed in detail, including skirts & aprons from a variety of materials, dresses of many styles, capotes, robes, breechclouts, leggings, shirts, breastplates, parkas, hats, moccasins cradleboards and sandals. Selected pieces of dress clothing, primarily from the Plains, are also discussed. Included are drawings, patterns and ideas for making replicas of primitive clothing.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Putting on the Dog written by Melissa Kwasny and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Putting on the Dog, Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing: leather, wool, silk, feathers, pearls, and fur. From silkworms grown on plantations in Japan and mink farms off Denmark’s western coast to pearl beds in the Sea of Cortés, Kwasny offers firsthand accounts of traditions and manufacturing methods—aboriginal to modern—and descriptions of the marvel and miracle of the clothing itself. What emerges is a fresh look at the cultural history of fashion. Kwasny travels the globe to visit both large-scale industrial manufacturers and community-based, often subsistence production by people who have spent their lives working with animals—farmers, ranchers, tanners, weavers, shepherds, and artisans. She examines historical rates of consumption and efforts to move toward sustainability, all while considering animal welfare, worker safety, environmental health, product accountability, and respect for indigenous knowledge and practice. At its heart, Putting on the Dog demonstrates how what we choose to wear represents one of our most profound engagements with the natural world.
Download or read book The Cloud Atlas written by Liam Callanan and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning days of World War II, The Cloud Atlas is an enthralling debut novel, a story of adventure and awakening—and of a young soldier who came to Alaska on an extraordinary, top-secret mission…and found a world that would haunt him forever. Drifting through the night, whisper-quiet, they were the most sublime manifestations of a desperate enemy: Japanese balloon bombs. Made of rice paper, at once ingenious and deadly, they sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific...and once they started landing, the U.S. scrambled teams to find and defuse them, and then keep them secret from an already anxious public. Eighteen-year-old Louis Belk was one of those men. Dispatched to the Alaskan frontier, young Sergeant Belk was better trained in bomb disposal than in keeping secrets. And the mysteries surrounding his mission only increased when he met his superior officer—a brutal veteran OSS spy hunter who knew all too well what the balloons could do—and Lily, a Yup’ik Eskimo woman who claimed she could see the future. Louis’s superior ushers him into a world of dark secrets; Lily introduces Louis to an equally disorienting world of spirits—and desire. But the world that finally tests them all is Alaska, whose vastness cloaks mysteries that only become more frightening as they unravel. Chasing after the ghostly floating weapons, Louis embarks upon an adventure that will lead him deep into the tundra. There, on the edge of the endless wilderness, he will make a discovery and a choice that will change the course of his life. At once a heart-quickening mystery and a unique love story, The Cloud Atlas is also a haunting, lyrical rendering of a little-known chapter in history. Brilliantly imagined, beautifully told, this is storytelling at its very best.
Download or read book Arctic Clothing written by Jonathan C. H. King and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arising from a conference held at the British Museum in 2001, Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland is a wide-ranging and authoritative account of clothing use in the north. For the first time, contributors include Native and non-Native artists and seamstresses, anthropologists, historians, curators and conservators with expertise in Alaska, Canada and Greenland."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Craft Manual of North American Indian Footwear written by George M. White and published by White Pub. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual presents 27 authentic patterns of the major types of Indian footwear in North America. It provides step-by-step instructions for sewing moccasins. It is well illustrated & easily understood. The historical information is applicable for college level research, yet the instructional information is appropriate for summer camps, art classes & crafts people ages eight years through adulthood. A video that supplements this manual is also available, entitled MOCCASIN MAKING. Other craft manuals by George White cover beading, snowshoes, skin boats, ivory carving & numerous other rare forms of Native American art. Each manual includes a unique view of the art objects & the artists as well as the geographical & historical information. For current prices & information contact: White Publishing, 173 Blodgett Lane, Arlee, MT 59281, (406) 726-4162.
Download or read book The Lamp the Ice and the Boat Called Fish written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.
Download or read book Caribou Skin Clothing of the Igloolik Inuit written by Sylvie Pharand and published by Inhabit Media. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the steps involved in creating traditional Inuit caribou skin clothing, including the hunt, preparation, and sewing, as well as historical information and insights from Elders.
Download or read book How to Sew Rabbit Fur Mittens written by Bonnie J. Brummett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fur Crafting: A Forgotten Tradition - How to Sew Rabbit Fur Mittens takes you through all the steps of how to lay your pattern, cutting and sewing by hand, a warm pair of fur mittens that will last for years to come. Includes a FREE mitten pattern ($12 value!).
Download or read book The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman written by Edna Wilder and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Eskimo girl Minnie Tucker who met and married Englishman Sam Tucker. Chronicles how Minnie's perspective on the world changed to include new people and technology, as well as how her life with her husband on the remote, rugged Seward Peninsula. Includes photos of village life in the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Alaska Eskimo Footwear written by Jill Oakes and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alaska Eskimo Footwear celecrates the incredible beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples ... Detailed drawings of patterns, construction techniques, and decorative details illustrate the complexity of Eskimo footwear and provide guidance in identifying regional styles."--Publisher.
Download or read book A Likely Story written by Rosemary Mahoney and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1999-11-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--from the author of the acclaimed Whoredom in Kimmage, a moving, controversial, and supremely intelligent memoir of a bright and vulnerable teenager's hellish summer job. In 1978, Rosemary Mahoney, an aspiring young writer of seventeen, wrote her personal idol Lillian Hellman inquiring whether the famed woman of American letters might need domestic help for the summer. When Hellman responded affirmatively, Mahoney imagined an idyll on Martha's Vineyard of mentoring and friendship. But in reality Mahoney's summer unfolded into an exquisite and grueling exercise in humiliation at the hands of the acerbic Hellman and her retinue of celebrated acquaintances. By turns heartbreaking and uproariously funny, A Likely Story portrays the coming-of-age of a brilliant and troubled young woman--a universal tale of illusions shattered and an object lesson in the often misdirected search for heroes.
Download or read book Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory written by Linda M. Hurcombe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record. Providing news ideas and connections and suggesting revisionist ways of thinking about broad themes in the past, this book demonstrates the efficacy of an holistic approach by using examples and cases studies. No other book covers such a broad range of organic materials from a social and object biography perspective, or concentrates so fully on approaches to the missing components of prehistoric material culture. This book will be an essential addition for those people wishing to understand better the nature and importance of organic materials as the ’missing majority’ of prehistoric material culture.
Download or read book Jacqueline Briggs Martin and YOU written by Jacqueline Martin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing on the phrase, The author and you, a commonly taught reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said, this new series will assist teachers and teacher librarians in understanding the underlying purposes of an author as they prepare learning activities for students. The series focuses primarily on books for the elementary age child (K–6) and features insights into the author's background, purposes, and goals in writing his or her books. By furnishing an overview of an author's works, the books in the series give teachers the big picture. This book, like the others in the series, features personal information about the author, including insights into why she writes the type of books she writes, There is also information about each of the author's books featured. Part II of the book is the author's writing workshop—writing about writing. This book features Jacqueline Briggs Martin, award winning picture book author. It discusses her life and work and the researching, writing, and illustrating of each of her books, providing insight into the writing process and promoting reading as a source of good writing.
