Description
The book's author, Georg J. Barth, is a librarian at a teachers college in Freiburg/Germany and has always been interested in North American Indian art. His research has been augmented by extensive travels to American and European museums and private collections. An avid and exacting craftworker, he has been especially attracted to the classic beadwork of the Crow Indians.
Besides becoming a recognized authority on beadwork, his attention as lately been focused on the Plateau cornhusk bags and the beargrass basket hats. He says, "I am most interested in Native American textile arts - particularly in techniques which cannot be reproduced by machines, such as beadwork, quillwork, or basketry, or the twining of Chilkat dancing blankets. Learning how these things were made leaves me in awe of, and with deep respect for the American Indian artists and craftspeople who created them".