Featuring more than 700 detailed drawings and illustrations of crafts and artworks, this is an epic study of the diversity of many different tribal art forms of peoples of both North and South America. Arranged by geographic region and landscape inhabited, there are sections on tribes of the mountains and mesas, forest and sea, plains and lakes, pampas, coasts and many other groupings, featuring the artwork of tribes from the Inca, Maya, Aztec, Mixtec, Navaho, Hopi, Apache, Cherokee, Creek, Dakota, Sioux and many more. Background information and full text supports the designs of basketry, sculpture, painting, pottery, sand paintings, metal, much more.
The text gives information on the lore and tradition behind the designs.
