Contemporary Native American ArtistsProfiles more than one thousand contemporary Native American artists including potters, silversmiths, weavers, painters, wood and metal sculptors, and basket-makers from approximately one hundred tribes throughout the country. |
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... skills from his father , Walter Harris . This prac- tice is unusual because carvers traditionally train their nephews . ABOUT THE ARTIST : Harris worked with his father on a totem pole that was commissioned by Sunrise Films of Toronto ...
... skills from his father , Walter Harris . This prac- tice is unusual because carvers traditionally train their nephews . ABOUT THE ARTIST : Harris worked with his father on a totem pole that was commissioned by Sunrise Films of Toronto ...
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... skills from fellow family members . ABOUT THE ARTIST : Jim continued making baskets until she was well over 100 years old . Her daugh- ter , Julianna Williams , learned the art from Jim . THOMAS JIM Navajo ( 1955 ) Arizona Jeweler ...
... skills from fellow family members . ABOUT THE ARTIST : Jim continued making baskets until she was well over 100 years old . Her daugh- ter , Julianna Williams , learned the art from Jim . THOMAS JIM Navajo ( 1955 ) Arizona Jeweler ...
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... skills of making baskets and hopes to continue making them . ESTELLA JOHN Seneca ( 1924 ) Salamanca , New York Beadworker , dollmaker , leatherworker EDUCATION : Learned how to do bead and leather- work at Thomas Indian School in ...
... skills of making baskets and hopes to continue making them . ESTELLA JOHN Seneca ( 1924 ) Salamanca , New York Beadworker , dollmaker , leatherworker EDUCATION : Learned how to do bead and leather- work at Thomas Indian School in ...
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