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Pilger, Mary Anne – 1998
The legacies of all cultures can be found in their creations--their arts, their celebrations, and their traditions. This book is designed to help educators introduce students to the diversity of people around the world through creative, hands-on activities based on cultural traditions. It offers teachers, librarians, and parents access to 28,000…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Cultural Activities, Cultural Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, Honolulu, HI. – 2000
Oceanic art has long been recognized for its quality and its influence on Western art. This CD-ROM presents over 100 of the finest examples of art from the Pacific region in the form of museum photos, contemporary video segments, and music. The CD-ROM includes such artifacts as masks and carvings from Melanesia, canoes and storyboards from…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Art Education, Art Products, Cultural Context
Baxter, Paula A. – 2000
A current guide to significant people, techniques, design motifs, materials, and forms, this comprehensive encyclopedia covers Native American jewelry making from the first contact with the Europeans to the present, focusing primarily on the last 150 years of Native American jewelry making. The encyclopedia contains 350 cross-referenced entries…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Art Education, Art Expression
Roessel, Robert A., Jr. – 1983
A profusely-illustrated book on Navajo arts and crafts, from the Navajo Curriculum Center, includes sections on weaving, silversmithing, basket making, pottery making, and the economics of Navajo arts and crafts. The book is intended for use by Navajo students and Navajo people in general, so they can read about their arts and crafts from a Navajo…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Literature, Art History