Traditional Dress: Knowledge and Methods of Old-Time Clothing

Hungrywolf, Adolf

ISBN 10: 0913990728 / ISBN 13: 9780913990728

Published by BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traditional Dress: Knowledge and Methods of Old-Time Clothing
• Publisher: BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913990728
• ISBN 13: 9780913990728
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Back in the old days, Native people dressed according to tribal tradtion and personal desire. Like everything else in their lives, appearance was dictated foremost by visions and dreams. The descriptions of old styles and methods of making clothing, beadwork, and doing hair are illustrated with diagrams and old photographs.

About the Author

Adolf Hungry Wolf is a prolific author of numerous books on railroading, history, nature and native cultures. With his family he has written over fifty books while homesteading in the Canadian Rockies. For thirty years he has studied the traditional ways of his wife’s tribe, the Blackfoot Confederacy, while home schooling four children.