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Describes and gives instructions for making, a variety of traditional Indian tools, implements, clothing, toys, ornaments, and other items.

Provides instructions for making models of things used by indigenous peoples of North America throughout the development of their thousand-year-old civilization.

Instructions for recreating North American Indian everyday and ceremonial crafts, musical instruments, and games, as well as recipes for Indian foods.

Like an archaeological dig, Clothes & Crafts in History offers readers an opportunity to uncover exciting details of past lives in ancient cities and times. From descriptions and physical evidence left behind, readers learn about the variety of materials and skills that craft workers used to produce kitchen utensils, clothes, jewelry, and other items. Each book in the series also includes information on festivals of the time and exciting project ideas...

Provides instructions for craft projects and games which illustrate Indian culture.

Introduces the highly successful wilderness technology possessed by Indians of North America in the millenia before white settlement. Includes projects for making simple tools, weaving, and crafting moccasins and willow baskets.

Explains how the North American Indians used simple tools to make clothing, weapons, cooking implements, and ornaments from the raw materials around them.