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Zuñi fetish carvings / by Finkelstein, Harold.;
Subjects: Fetishes (Ceremonial objects); Zuni art.; Zuni sculpture.;
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A guide to Zuni fetishes and carvings / by McManis, Kent.(CARDINAL)528022; Stancliff, Robin.(CARDINAL)528021; Gentry, Linnea,1948-(CARDINAL)771720;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47) and index.
Subjects: Fetishes (Ceremonial objects); Zuni sculpture.; Zuni art.;
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Zuni fetishes & carvings / by McManis, Kent.(CARDINAL)528022; McManis, Kent.Zuni fetishes and carvings.; Stancliff, Robin.(CARDINAL)528021;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-145) and indexes.
Subjects: Fetishes (Ceremonial objects); Stone carving; Zuni art.; Zuni sculpture.;
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Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms : Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast / by Lenik, Edward J.,1932-Author(DLC)n 96065672 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174) and index.Northeastern cultural history -- Anthropomorphic or human images -- Terrestrial mammals -- Fish, shellfish, and sea mammals -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Birds and insects -- Geometric and abstract designs -- Retrospective summary: marking places and things -- Appendix: seeing portable rock art.Rounds out Edward J. Lenik's comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images, or symbols. These are rendered on pebbles, plaques, pendants, axes, pestles, and atlatl weights, and are of varying sizes, shapes, and designs. Lenik draws from Indian myths and legends and incorporates data from ethnohistoric and archaeological sources together with local environmental settings in an attempt to interpret the iconography of these fascinating relics. For the Algonquian and Iroquois peoples, they reflect identity, status, and social relationships with other Indians as well as beings in the spirit world. Lenik begins with background on the Indian cultures of the Northeast and includes a discussion of the dating system developed by anthropologists to describe prehistory. The heart of the content comprises more than eighty examples of portable rock art, grouped by recurring design motifs. This organization allows for in-depth analysis of each motif. The motifs examined range from people, animals, fish, and insects to geometric and abstract designs. Information for each object is presented in succinct prose, with a description, illustration, possible interpretation, the story of its discovery, and the location where it is now housed. Lenik also offers insight into the culture and lifestyle of the Native American groups represented. An appendix listing places to see and learn more about the artifacts and a glossary are included. The material in this book, used in conjunction with Lenik's previous research, offers a reference for virtually every known example of northeastern rock art. Archaeologists, students, and connoisseurs of Indian artistic expression will find this an invaluable work.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Woodland Indians; Petroglyphs; Amulets; Fetishes (Ceremonial objects); Indian art;
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Objets interdits. by Dapper, Olfert,1635 or 1636-1689.Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten.Selections.French.(CARDINAL)213188; Fondation Dapper.(CARDINAL)192552;
"Ouvrages d'Olfert Dapper." page 84.Bibliography: pages 83-84.
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636-1689; Fondation Dapper.; Art, African; Assemblage (Art); Idols and images.; Fetishes (Ceremonial objects);
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Havanas in Camelot : personal essays / by Styron, William,1925-2006.(CARDINAL)139330;
Havanas in Camelot -- A case of the great pox -- "I'll have to ask Indianapolis..." -- Les amis du President -- Celebrating Capote -- Jimmy in the house (James Baldwin) -- Transcontinental with Tex (Terry Southern) -- A literary forefather (Mark Twain) -- Slavery's pain, Disney's gain -- Too late for conversion or prayer -- Moviegoer -- Fessing up -- Walking with Aquinnah -- "In vineyard haven."Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of Styron's personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron's daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Styron's essays touch on the great themes of his fiction--racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust--but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects.--From amazon.com.
Subjects: Styron, William, 1925-2006.;
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