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Bear power motifs on Plains Indian shields = Bärenmotive in Schildbemalungen der Plainsindianer / Riku Hämäläinen ; German translation/Deutsche Übersetzung by Dietmar Kuegler.
Penn Museum Library E78.G73 H347 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hämäläinen, Riku.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Indian art--Great Plains--Themes, motives.
- Indian art.
- Shields--Great Plains.
- Shields.
- Bears--Symbolic aspects.
- Bears.
- Indian armor--Great Plains.
- Indian armor.
- Themes, motives.
- Great Plains.
- Physical Description:
- 71 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Bärenmotive in Schildbemalungen der Plainsindianer
- Place of Publication:
- Wyk auf Foehr, Germany : Tatanka Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- Parallel text in English and German.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Painted bear motifs: whole bears
- Parts of the bear body
- Bear paws
- An abstract bear
- Incised bear paw motifs
- Rawhide bear figures
- Tokens from a bear's carcass
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-71).
- OCLC:
- 701846423
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