Aztec Crafts from the Past - Softcover

Chapman, Gillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688177484 ISBN 13: 9780688177485

Publisher: HarperFestival, 2000

Synopsis

Projects based on various features of Aztec culture recreate some of their arts and crafts, including woven textiles, mosaic masks, jewelry, featherwork, and wheeled toys.

About this title

About the Author:

Gillian Chapman, author of Crafts from the Past: the Aztecs, and Crafts from the Past: the Egyptians, as well as Art from Sand & Earth (Raintree/Steck Vaughn) lives in England.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-8?Brief snippets of text make for superficial coverage of the Egyptian and Aztec empires, but crafts?not history?are the focus of this series, and sufficient information is given to put the crafts into a cultural context. The appealing, inventive projects include "Jade Mosaics," "Featherwork," "Woven Textiles," and "Chacmool Statues" (The Aztecs); and "Nest of Mummies," "Scarab Seals," "Board Games," and "Canopic Jars" (The Egyptians). The colorful crafts are attractive, often ambitious, and generally reflective of the culture. Instructions are rather sketchy, but the full-color diagrams and photographs of completed projects provide sufficient clarification. There are no pretensions to authenticity here. On the contrary, there is a rather jarring effort to make the items "useful" (e.g., a mosaic papier-mache serpent becomes a key holder, a cat mummy becomes a "purr-fect" money box), and the general instructions suggest that "All the projects make perfect presents." These volumes are hardly essential, but as supplementary material for hands-on learning, they should prove useful.?Marcia Hupp, Mamaroneck Public Library, NY
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFestival
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0688177484
• ISBN 13: 9780688177485
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32