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2007 November/December Table of Contents
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Printmaker, carver, regalia designer and jeweler Richard Hunt
(Kwagiulth) of Victoria, British Columbia displays the traditional
regalia he wears when he dances the Klasala (peace dance), including a
mother-of-pearl button blanket of his own design sewn by his sister,
Shirley. On his head is a bear frontlet and in his lap is his
Thunderbird headdress, which he wears when he dances the famed Hamatsa
(wild man dance). Hunt’s Indian name, Gwe-la-yo-gwe-la-gya-lis, means
“a man that travels and wherever he goes, he potlatches.” Photo by
Jennifer Modigliani.
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2007 September/October Table of Contents
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Ceramic artist Kathleen Wall (Jemez Pueblo) models a Penny Singer
(Dine) vest with turtle and lightning motifs. Photo by Penny Singer
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2007 July/August Table of Contents
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Sculptor, jeweler and maskmaker Lillian Pitt (Yakama/Wasco/Warm
Springs) poses next to one of her striking cast crystal masks,
"She Who Watches" (14x16x3 inches). Photo by Dennis Maxwell
(www.lightplay-photos.com).
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2007 May/June Table of Contents
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Pueblo Indian of New Mexico, simply identified as Wyemah, photographed
by Edward S. Curtis circa 1905 (published in Indians of North
America, 1900–1910, courtesy Library of Congress), looks across the ages
and the superimposed image by Kyle Gerstner of a great blue heron
hunting its next meal in the Wakarusa Wetlands of Kansas. Sacred places
like these wetlands are continually being threatened by inappropriate
development and misuse.
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2007 March/April Table of Contents
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Potter Jody Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo) of New Mexico displays one of
her remarkable works created using age-old traditional materials and
techniques, but finished in her own, unique style. She will be among
the featured artists demonstrating their work for visitors in the
initial Santa Fe Detours “Roads to Yesterday” tour this coming September.
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2007 January/February
By Site Editor
| Published 01/1/2007
| US Travel , Painting , Beadwork , Cultural Items , Jewelry/Lapidary , 2007 , Colville , Navajo , Oglala , Sioux , Lakota , Kiowa
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Virginia
Boone (Navajo) collects wild plants in Arizona for Medicine of the
People, the company she operates with her husband, Leonard Marcus. She
is one of the small but growing number of Native Americans beginning to
find their way back to traditional Native uses of plants for health and
healing.
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