Maria Naylor - Authentic Indian Designs

THE WORLDS RIM: GREAT MYSTERIES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, Hartley Burr Alexander. (0-486-40670-9)

LIFE OF BLACK HAWK, Black Hawk. (0-486-28105-1)

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A KIOWA APACHE INDIAN, Charles S. Brant (ed.). (0-486-26862-4)

LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, George Catlin. (0-486-22118-0, 0-486-22119-9)

GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, Stewart Culin. (0-486-23125-9)

THE INDIANS BOOK, Natalie Curtis. (0-486-21939-9)

How INDIANS USE WILD PLANTS FOR FOOD, MEDICINE AND CRAFTS, Frances Densmore. (0-486-23019-8)

CAPTURED BY THE INDIANS: 15 FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS, Frederick Drimmer. (0-486-24901-8)

FROM THE DEEP WOODS TO CIVILIZATION, Charles A. Eastman. (0-486-43088-X)

INDIAN BOYHOOD, Charles A. Eastman. (0-486-22037-0)

INDIAN SCOUT CRAFT AND LORE, Charles A. Eastman. (0-486-22995-5)

THE SOUL OF THE INDIAN, Charles A. Eastman (0-486-43089-8)

AN OUTLINE DICTIONARY OF MAYA GLYPHS, William Gates. (0-486-23618-8)

A CENTURY OF DISHONOR: THE CLASSIC EXPOSE OF THE PLIGHT OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS, Helen Hunt Jackson. (0-486-42698-X)

INDIAN BASKETRY, George W. James. (0-486-21712-4)

INDIAN BLANKETS AND THEIR MAKERS, George Wharton James. (0-486-22996-3)

WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA, Paul Kane. (0-486-29031-X)

HANDBOOK OF THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA, A.L. Kroeber. (0-486-23368-5)

A MOHAVE WAR REMINISCENCE, 18541880, A. L. Kroeber and C. B. Kroeber. (0-486-28163-9)

IROQUOIS MUSIC AND DANCE, Gertrude P. Kurath. (0-486-41469-8)

YUCATAN BEFORE AND AFTER THE CONQUEST, Diego de Landa. (0-486-23622-6)

THE MEXICAN KICKAPOO INDIANS, Felipe A. Latorre and Dolores L. Latorre. (0-486-26742-3)

THE DREAM IN NATIVE AMERICAN AND OTHER PRIMITIVE CULTURES, Jackson Steward Lincoln. (0-486-42706-4)

INDIAN WHY STORIES, Frank B. Linderman. (0-486-28800-5)

HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN GAMES, Allan and Paulette Macfarlan. (0-486-24837-2)

PICTURE WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS, Garrick Mallery. (VOL. I: 0-486-22842-8)

AMERICAN INDIAN BASKETRY, Otis Tufton Mason. (0-486-25777-0)

THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION AND WOUNDED KNEE, James Mooney. (0-486-26759-8)

MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE, James Mooney. (0-486-28907-9)

THE INDIAN JOURNALS 185962, Lewis Henry Morgan. (0-486-27599-X)

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE MAYA HIEROGLYPHS, Sylvanus Griswold Morley. (0-486-23108-9)

PATTERNS AND CEREMONIALS OF THE INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST, Ira Moskowitz & John Collier. (0-486-28692-4)

INDIAN BASKET WEAVING, Navajo School of Indian Basketry. (0-486-22616-6)

SANDPAINTINGS OF THE NAVAJO SHOOTING CHANT, Franc J. Newcomb & Gladys Reichard. (0-486-23141-0)

NAVAHO INDIAN MYTHS, Aileen OBryan. (0-486-27592-2)

TRAITS OF AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE AND CHARACTER, Peter Skeene Ogden. (0-486-28436-0)

MYTHS AND TALES OF THE JICARILLA APACHE INDIANS, Edward Morris Opler. (0-486-28324-0)

THE INDIAN How BOOK, Arthur C. Parker (Gawaso Wanneh). (0-486-21767-1)

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE: CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS OF 23 TRIBES, Elsie Clews Parsons. (0-486-27377-6)

WEAVING A NAVAJO BLANKET, Gladys A. Reichard. (0-486-22992-0)

THE BOOK OF INDIAN CRAFTS AND INDIAN LORE, Julian Harris Salomon. (0-486-41433-7)

MY LIFE AS AN INDIAN: THE STORY OF A RED WOMAN AND A WHITE MAN IN THE LODGES OF THE BLACKFEET, J. W. Schultz. (0-486-29614-8)

SIGN TALK OF THE CHEYENNE INDIANS AND THEIR CULTURES, Ernest Thompson Seton. (0-486-41434-5)

DECORATIVE ART OF THE SOUTHWESTERN INDIANS, Dorothy Sides. (0-486-20139-2) FAVORITE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS, Philip Smith (ed.). (0-486-27822-0) THE MYTHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, Lewis Spence. (0-486-25967-6) YUMAN TRIBES OF THE GILA RIVER, Leslie Spier. (0-486-23611-0)

INDIAN TRIBES OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND ADJACENT COAST OF THE GULF OF MEXICO, John R. Swanton. (0-486-40177-4)

INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE, William Tomkins. (0-486-22029-X)

EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN, John Manchip White. (0-486-43143-6)

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Authentic Indian Designs: 2500 Illustrations from Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1975, is a new selection of illustrations from the first 44 Annual Reports of the Bureau. The original title pages of the first and 44th Reports read as follows:

First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, 1879- 80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881.

Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, 1926-1927, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928.

The picture selection and all the text in the present edition are by Maria Naylor.

This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

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At the time of the discovery of the New World and the first encounters between Europeans and the Indian tribes of North America, the white mans curiosity about his world, its wonders and its inhabitants was both wide-ranging and intense. Reports from early explorers about the way of life of the inhabitants of the newly discovered lands generally included some descriptions of such arts and crafts as were then practiced by the people described, but while the Renaissance spirit of inquiry dictated that note be made of such manufactures, the same spirit worked against their being regarded as art. Although Albrecht Drer said that the treasures from the court of Montezuma which he saw at Brussels in 1521 seemed more wondrous than the things spoken of in fairy tales, to the Hapsburg emperor and his creditors they were so much coinage-fodder. Until quite late in the Colonial period, explorers hoped to find great caches of treasure on the North American continent, treasures to rival those of Mexico and Peru; those who were slightly less visionary wanted land and furs. Throughout the Colonial period, destruction of those crafts extant when the white man came was part and parcel of the destruction of the Indian way of life as a whole. Native manufactures were quickly replaced by mass-produced trade goods, though some articles of Indian manufacture might be purchased from tribes that survived, if they were obviously utilitarian, like baskets, or superior to white products, like some kinds of tanned leather. Sometimes skills introduced by Europeans replaced native traditions, such as the floral embroidery patterns taught in French Canadian convents to Indian students, and later introduced into beadwork decoration. Any particular art, no matter how lengthy its tradition, could be lost quickly when the tribe decided to substitute trade goods for the native articles; or the make and decoration might be radically changed to capture a white market, and traditional methods again forgotten.