Indian Beadwork : A Help for Students of Design
Clark Wissler
Guide Leaflet No. 50
American Museum of Natural History
(c) 1927 , 2nd edition
This is a beautiful booklet that I found to be handsome, informative, and charming - especially how they called it a "leaflet". But it also is an interesting relic in the sense that it is a booklet about Native people's crafts and craftsmenship written by a white man less than 30 years after the Wounded Knee massacre that makes the end of the "Indian Wars" in the United States. The booklet almost bleeds with irony.
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