Beginning in 1994, award-winning photographer and installation artist Kathy T Hettinga began a fourteen-year project to document an unknown body of...

The Haida are islanders first and foremost -- a people apart. Discover the source of their distinctive culture and the inspirations for their arts.

The format and design of this book was devised to make learning about the Hohokam an exciting experience for all ages. Each of the seven sections i...

In the American Southwest, Native people remain connected to the lands that have been their homes for centuries. In Home: Native People in the Sout...

Nearly 200 photographs chronicle the evolution of Hopi jewelry over the last four decades and illustrate, through the Kópavi collection, the innov...

Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books abo...

Art and Culture of the Northwest Coast Indians. The Northwest Coast is the land whose aboriginal in habitants are distinguished by their large rect...

For the past three decades, artist David Bradley (Minnesota Chippewa) has been a recognized voice from Indian Country, exploring and confronting th...

The international workshop on conservation of East Asian cabinets in imperial residences (1700-1900) marked the starting point for the FWF-funded r...

Explore the art of Rodrigo Melo's Japanese style tattoos through more than 150 lush studio photographs of bodysuits, rib pieces, back pieces, and s...

Japanese men have been marked by tattoo artists for the past 300 years. Todays urbane Japanese youth continue the tradition, proudly creating and w...

This beautifully illustrated book reviews the extraordinary evolution of Japans military institutions at a period of enormous transformation. Conve...

First published in 1973, this publication adds an important chapter to the body of work that brings Kachina art and scholarship together. The 237 K...

The Ko Rongowhakaata: Story of Light and Shadow exhibition at Te Papa is a window into the world of Rongowhakaata, the prominent iwi from the Tūran...

This catalogue commemorates the life of Lloyd Kiva New, artist, fashion designer, and renowned arts educator. Always a trailblazer, from his early ...

An extensive collection of beautiful masks from around the world, all portrayed in beautiful color. Powerful in their form, nearly every continent ...

Kansas-born educator Dorothy Dunn established America's first Indian art school, thus ushering in the flat-art style by which Native American paint...

This ground-breaking book explores the revolution that’s transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwid...

Illustrated with 150 enchanting paintings and historical photographs, some from as early as 1922, the author describes the history and motivation b...

Back in print, expanded, and revised, the second edition of Navajo Pictorial Weaving is devoted to all categories of antique Navajo pictorial weavi...

Explore the life and art of legendary Navajo silversmith Fred Peshlakai, and see how his masterful art began and evolved. Beginning with the histor...

Through photos and interviews, this book is an extraordinarily intimate glimpse into the creative spaces and minds of fifty-two New Mexico artists ...

Delve into the origins and contemporary interpretations of various styles of non-figural Zuni jewelry designs, including nugget work, cluster work,...

The second coloring book in the Northwest Native Arts Series. Learn about some of the real and legendary creatures revered by the natives of the we...

In 2015, the Dutch collector Hans van Berkel, granted his Inuit (and Chukchi) art and handicraft collection to the National Museum of Ethnology, no...

The bead played a vital role in Pueblo Indian jewelry design, and its influence continues today in modernist American design. In these pages, featu...

What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through whi...

An Expert Guide to the History and the Role of a Prized Jade Māori Art Form. Of all Māori personal adornments, the human figure pendants known as h...

New Zealand's national art colleciton is held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Ten art curators each pick ten art works, and explain...

A Comprehensive Guide to the Objects Associated with the Voyages of James Cook Held at New Zealand’s National Museum. Almost 250 years after James ...

Enter and explore the powerful, ancestral world of the whare whakairo, or Māori meeting house, with this engaging illustrated guide. Richly illustr...

This colour illustrated book takes the reader through the trajectory of styles from the Wei to the Tang Dynasties and uses the Harvard Winthrop Col...

The Tlingit Indians of the Northwest Coast carved interior house posts, portal entrances and free standing totem poles with crests of animals, sea ...

The baskets, blankets, rugs, pottery, jewellery, sandpaintings, dolls, and beadwork created by the Native Americans of the Southwest are all so uni...

This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginning with the earliest people who mined and processed...