North American Indian Designs for Artists and Craftspeople [SOLD]

This ample, carefully researched volume contains more than 360 striking copyright-free designs, each meticulously rendered from embellishments on Indian baskets, pottery, blankets, clothing, carvings, paintings, metalwork or other artifacts in various museums and private collections. The illustrations span 2,000 years-from prehistoric pipe bowls carved in stone that date back to 100 B.C., to 20th-century painted pottery designs that are based on traditional motifs.

Florals, hunting scenes, stylized plants and animals, mythological figures, geometrics, double-curve motifs, feather designs, pictographs, border patterns and many other designs have been selected and reproduced from the painted pottery of the Hopi, Hohokam and Pueblo Indians; Navajo blankets and silverwork; wampum belts; quill work from M