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American Indian contributions to the world. by Keoke, Emory Dean,author.(CARDINAL)707041; Porterfield, Kay Marie,author.(CARDINAL)743946;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Tools and inventions -- Sound and light -- Mining for metals and metalworking -- Petroleum and rubber -- Chemistry -- Math, solid geometry, and astronomy -- Engineering -- Writing -- Ecology -- Glossary of ancient cultures -- For further reading.
Subjects: Indian astronomy.; Indian metal-work.; Indians; Indians; Inventions.; Technological innovations.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Gold in Alt-Amerika / by Haberland, Wolfgang.(CARDINAL)154335; Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde und Vorgeschichte.(CARDINAL)335324; Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)DLC(CARDINAL)278833;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-32).
Subjects: Indian goldwork; Indian metal-work; Indians of South America;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Spiro mound / by Hamilton, Henry W.(CARDINAL)164364; Griffin, James B.(James Bennett),1905-1997.An interpretation of the place of Spiro in Southeastern archaeology.; Willoughby, Charles Clark,1857-1943.Textile fabrics from the Spiro Mound.;
Bibliography: pages 119-124.
Subjects: Indian metal-work; Caddoan metal-work.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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North American Indian jewelry and adornment : from prehistory to the present / by Dubin, Lois Sherr.(CARDINAL)755394; Togashi.(CARDINAL)767136; Jones, Paul.(CARDINAL)760925;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-597) and index.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indian metal-work; Indian beadwork; Indians of North America;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Golden kingdoms : luxury arts in the ancient Americas / by Pillsbury, Joanne,editor.(CARDINAL)783051; Potts, Timothy F.,editor.(CARDINAL)353068; Richter, Kim N.,editor.(CARDINAL)783052; Getty Research Institute,issuing body.(CARDINAL)119558; J. Paul Getty Museum,host institution,issuing body.(CARDINAL)140825; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),host institution.(CARDINAL)147619; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project),sponsor.(CARDINAL)349576;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-296) and index.Foreword / Timothy Potts, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, and Thomas P. Campbell -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Contributors -- Map of jadeite, turquoise and Spondylus sources with routes of metal technologies in the Americas -- Map of the ancient Americas -- Luminous power: luxury arts in the ancient Americas / Joanne Pillsbury -- For gods and rulers: metalworking in the ancient Americas / Blanca E. Maldonado. Kuntur Wasi / Yoshio Onuki -- Masters of the universe: Moche artists and their patrons / Luis Jaime Castillo. Dos Cabezas / Christopher B. Donnan -- Imperial radiance: luxury arts of the Inca and their predecessors / Joanne Pillsbury. Chornancap / Carlos Wester La Torre -- Metallurgy and prestige in ancient Colombia: Yotoco and Malagana adornments and Muisca offerings / María Alicia Uribe Villegas and Marcos Martinón-Torres -- Magical substances in the land between the seas: luxury arts in northern South America and Central America / John W. Hoopes. Talamanca de Tibás / Ricardo Vazquez Leiva. El Caño / Julia Mayo Torné -- Forests of jade: luxury arts and symbols of excellence in Mesoamerica / Laura Filloy Nadal. La Venta / Rebecca B. González Lauck. Palenque / James A. Doyle -- Essential luxuries: on pleasing and powerful things among the Maya / Stephen Houston. Ek' Balam / Leticia Vargas de la Peña and Victor R. Castillo Borges. The Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza / James A. Doyle -- Luxuries from the sea: the use of shells in the ancient Americas / Adrián Velázquez Castro -- Bright kingdoms: trade networks, indigenous aesthetics, and royal courts in postclassic Mesoamerica / Kim N. Richter. Monte Albán / Kim N. Richter -- Mexica gold / Leonardo López Luján and José Luis Ruvalcaba Sil. The Aztec Templo Mayor / Allison Caplan -- For new gods, kings, and markets: luxury in the age of global encounters / Julia McHugh -- Catalogue. Central Andes ; Northern Andes and Central America ; Mesoamerica and the American Southwest."Golden Kingdoms provides a sweeping overview of the luxury arts in ancient America from the second millennium BC to the Spanish Conquest in the sixteenth century. Wrought with extraordinary skill from gold, silver, jade, turquoise, shell, textile, and feathers, the spectacular imagery created by court artists played a central role in the royal regalia and sacred rituals that validated imperial power in Pre-Columbian kingdoms from the Andes in the south to Mexico in the north. Reserved for the religious and political elites of the Olmec, Maya, Chimú, Moche, Aztecs, and other peoples, many of these objects were traded over hundreds of miles and cherished for centuries as heirlooms, often ending up as dedications in temples and sacred natural wells (cenotes), or as burial goods for the afterlife. Based on the latest archaeological excavations and scholarship, this study provides a radical reinterpretation of this fascinating material that reflects the value system of the indigenous cultures themselves. Many of the objects have never before left their countries of origin." -From back cover of jacket."This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from September 16, 2017, through January 28, 2018, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 26 to May 28, 2018"--Title page verso.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Photobooks.; J. Paul Getty Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Indian goldwork; Indian metal-work; Art objects, Ancient; Luxuries; Art and society;
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Inca : origins and mysteries of the civilisation of gold / by Carcedo de Mufarech, Paloma.(CARDINAL)650838; Museo di Santa Giulia (Brescia, Italy)(CARDINAL)227715;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-241).Pre-Columbian Peru : an overview / Carlos Wester La Torre -- The ideology and technology of metals in ancient, pre-Incan Peru / María Inés Velarde, Pamela Castro de la Mata -- The Inca : human and divine relations with gold / Fernando Rosas Moscoso -- Cosmovision models in the Central Andes in the pre-Columbian period / Carlo G. Elera Arévalo -- Metal : technology, beauty and feeling in ancient Peruvian culture / Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech -- Beverages, music and libations in pre-Columbian rituals : cups as guiding elements / Luisa María Vetter Parodi -- Scientific missions of the Museo Prehistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini in the Central Andes / Claudio Cavatrunci -- Italian anthropological or archaeological missions in Peru : the last few years / Antonio Aimi -- Ceremonial and ritual centres in ancient Peru / Giuseppe Orefici -- Moche culture and the royal tombs of Sipán / Walter Alva Alva.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Inca art; Inca goldwork; Inca metal-work; Incas; Incas; Incas; Indians of South America;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Medieval American art; masterpieces of the New World before Columbus. by Kelemen, Pál.(CARDINAL)131656;
Bibliography: pages 387-408.Volume One. List of illustrations in volume one -- Register of museums and collections -- Map of areas, cultures, and sites -- I. Art-history and medieval American art -- II. Historical approach -- III. Architecture -- IV. Sculpture -- V. Pottery -- Illustrations: Plates 1-168 -- Volume Two. List of illustrations in volume two -- Register of museums and collections -- VI. Weaving -- VII. Metal-work -- VIII. Jade and other semiprecious stones -- IX. Murals and manuscripts -- X. Miscellaneous applied arts -- XI. Facets of daily life -- XII. Evolution or influence -- Addenda to the second edition -- Bibliography -- Chronological chart -- Illustrations: Plates 169-308 -- Index.
Subjects: Indian art.; Indians;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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The crystal city : the tales of Alvin Maker VI / by Card, Orson Scott.(CARDINAL)139243;
In the author's alternative American frontier world, Indians work the magics of nature, Africans transform themselves with trinkets and whites have knacks-magical talents that allow them to shape metal, find water, win the hearts of followers and more. Alvin, the powerful seventh son of a seventh son, can create things that cannot be destroyed. He also has more than his fair share of knacks as well as some Indian magic. Determined to stop suffering where he finds it, he dreams of building the Crystal City, which will help mankind live in peace.930LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Maker, Alvin;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 19
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Pictorial price guide to American antiques and objects made for the American market / by Hammond, Dorothy.(CARDINAL)142479;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Antiques; Antiques; Antiques;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Seed / by Simpson, Rose Bean,artist.(CARDINAL)899254; Rapaport, Brooke Kamin,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)208781; Montiel, Anya,writer of commentary.(CARDINAL)872456; Baker, Joe,1946-writer of commentary.(CARDINAL)899324; Madison Square Park Conservancy (New York, N.Y.),sponsor.(CARDINAL)784486;
Includes bibliographical references."This newly commissioned public art exhibition by Rose B. Simpson is on view simultaneously in Madison Square Park and Inwood Hill Park. Seed is part of the milestone twentieth anniversary of Madison Square Park Conservancy's art program and is the Conservancy's first collaboration with another New York City public park. Throughout the run of the exhibition, free public programs will be held with Simpson, artists, neighbors, and Native and area cultural leaders. Simpson and other artists of her generation are resetting long-entrenched art historical interpretation around the soaring capacity of figuration. Seed is a formidable platform for this reassessment. The artist creates sentinels in weathered steel and bronze that lead with angularity and durability; industrial bolts fasten masks forged in bronze to sections cut from ten-foot-long steel sheets. But there is implicit tension within: Simpson constructs planar compositions that at only three-quarters of an inch deep have an exquisite fragility, like that of a towering paper doll flattened over generations and held in place by a folded steel stand. She shapes symbolism in each sculpture, where the Native past is enduring and resonant. The sentinels seem to have an acute understanding of their role as contemporary figures"--Madison Square Park Conservancy website.
Subjects: Simpson, Rose Bean; Indian sculpture; Indian sculpture; Metal sculpture; Outdoor sculpture; Madison Square Park Conservancy (New York, N.Y.);
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