Archive for March, 2010
- Art Print is New and in Mint Condition
- Art Print measures 16×20 inches
- Printed on High Quality Acid Free Lithograph Art Paper
- Custom Finished and Expertly Crafted
- Comes Ready To Hang, Frame, or Mat
Product Description
This beautiful art goes well in any room. Artwork is manufactured by Art Prints Inc. using state of the art equipment and quality materials such as premium grade high quality acid free lithograph art paper.
Native American Indian Apache Geronimo Photo Picture Art Print
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- Art Print is New and in Mint Condition
- Art Print measures 16×20 inches
- Printed on High Quality Acid Free Lithograph Art Paper
- Custom Finished and Expertly Crafted
- Comes Ready To Hang, Frame, or Mat
Product Description
This beautiful art goes well in any room. Artwork is manufactured by Art Prints Inc. using state of the art equipment and quality materials such as premium grade high quality acid free lithograph art paper.
Native American Indian Girl And Wolf Wolves Animal Picture Art Print
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- Art Print is New and in Mint Condition
- Art Print measures 16×20 inches
- Printed on High Quality Acid Free Lithograph Art Paper
- Custom Finished and Expertly Crafted
- Comes Ready To Hang, Frame, or Mat
Product Description
This beautiful art goes well in any room. Artwork is manufactured by Art Prints Inc. using state of the art equipment and quality materials such as premium grade high quality acid free lithograph art paper.
Native American Indian Brave With Wolf Animal Picture Art Print
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- Handmade in the USA by Navajo American Indian Tribe
- Stone type: Turquoise
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This Turquoise Jewelry Silver Earrings are a sensational piece of jewelry that’s highly elegant and fashionable. This sensational pair of earrings has been finely hand made out of Sterling Silver. The Sterling Silver has been masterfully inlaid with hand cut stones of genuine Turquoise. Turquoise jewelry is high in fashion for its natural color. Turquoise and Sterling Silver, a traditional combination that you can’t go wrong with.
Navajo Turquoise Jewelry Silver Earrings – PN-0003
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- Handmade in the USA by Navajo American Indian Tribe
- Stone type: Turquoise
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Need a necklace that will brighten your day, this is the one for you! A classic southwest technique, liquid silver is the tiniest sterling silver tube beads hand-strung together with a Turquoise Cross at the center. Liquid silver and Turquoise are the perfect combination of colors for any outfit whether casual or elegant. This necklace measures at 16 1/2″.
Liquid Silver Necklace with Turquoise Beads with Cross – NK-0025
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- Framed Art is Brand New
- Framed Art measures 19×23 inches Art Print measures 16×20 inches
- Solid Wood Frame, Real Glass Front
- Custom Finished and Expertly Crafted
- Comes Ready To Hang
Product Description
This beautiful framed art goes well in any room. Artwork and frame are manufactured in the United States by Art Prints Inc. using quality materials such as premium grade A solid hardwood, tempered picture frame glass, and high quality acid free lithograph art paper.
Old Native American Indian Pottery Picture Black Framed Art Print
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While the history of baskets in the Old World can date back to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, basketry was also an important part of the struggle to survive for the people of the New World as well. Practiced by virtually every Native American tribe, many of these people still make baskets in the same fashion that their ancestors have for thousands of years.
In ancient times, baskets were not an art form but a useful tool in the process of gathering grains, fruits, and nuts that was the main diet of many tribal peoples. These baskets were small in size and carried in the hands or were rather large and carried on the back. The women supported these larger containers by the use of a tumpline around the forehead. The wider opening in these baskets allowed the carrier to easily toss the gathered food over their shoulder. There were also special baskets known as creels that were used for carrying fish.
In areas that depended on hunting, people of nomadic tribes were continuously moving, following the game as it migrated. Baskets proved useful in these moves as they could be utilized to carry clothing, tools, and other necessities from campsite to campsite. The baskets that were made by the native women of these tribes were designed with a flat bottom so that these containers could be balanced on the head, freeing the women’s hands so that she could carry other items.
As settlers from Europe changed the lifestyle and living patterns of these Native American people, the older ones taught the younger generation their native skills as a way to cling onto their identity as a people. Basket weaving done by Native American women today is accomplished much in the same fashion that it has been done for centuries.
Most Native American baskets today are made to be sold to non-Native American tourists and collectors. The tribes themselves still use certain baskets for preparing food and for use in religious rituals, but the days of hunting and gathering have disappeared.
Unlike commercially-made baskets, Native American baskets are made from materials that are found in nature. They are weaved from fibers from different plants and trees that are found in the area in which a particular tribe lives. Some tribal weavers also use certain plants to dye the fibers different colors. Finding these materials has also been a challenge for many Native American basket weavers. Due to urban development and pollution, many of these trees and plants do no grow wild as they once did. While ancient weavers could travel by foot to find the items that they needed, modern weavers are discovering that while some of these items are available, they can only be found in areas that are off-limits to them. Many of these materials have also vanished due to the fact that these plants were considered to be useless weeds to anyone but a basket weaver and were thus destroyed.
In a few short years, it may impossible for Native American basket weavers to practice their craft as these materials may totally disappear. It is an art form that will be greatly missed.
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This collection of traditional and new melodies for solo Native American flute continues R. Carlos Nakai’s exploration of this expressive instrument. Returning to traditional roots, he presents eleven arrangements of Zuni, Lakota, Kiowa and Cheyenne melodies along with seven original compositions and a work by composer by James DeMars. Nakai beautifully demonstrates the haunting simplicity and evocative magic of the traditional flute.Amazon.com essential recording
Nakai’s most recent outing finds him returning once again to the simple under-produced style that he pioneered on Changes. This program includes 10 traditional tunes from the Kiowa, Lakota, Dakota, Zuni, and Cheyenne; seven of his own compositions; and “Lake That Speaks,” from the second movement of James DeMars’s “Two World Concerto.” On this album the Native melodies sound forceful, almost triumphant, partially due to the short, staccato bursts that Nakai often uses to begin a melodic line–sounds that bring to mind a child’s laughter or the contented chirping of a dawn bird. For the Cheyenne “Victory Song” and the Dakota/Lakota melody “The Great Mystery Hears Me” Nakai uses more sustained notes than usual, and the clear, piercing tone of his flute illuminates the heart like a ray of midday sunshine. –j. poet
Mythic Dreamer: Music For Native American Flute
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- Native American Culture Kachina Spirit
- Fine Pewter, Nickel Free Pendant
- One of 12 in the Native American Indian Spirit Collection
- Adjustable Black Cord Choker
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This is a pewter pendant of a Kachina Spirit along with a black adjustable choker cord. It is one of 12 pendants in the Native American Indian Spirit Collection. In Native American culture a Kachina is a spirit being that has a particular power that can bring rainfall, healing, fertility, protection, and so on. The Native American life offers a rich culture of values, traditions, and beliefs. Much of the history is passed along through symbolism and this collection represents many symbols of the culture.
Kachina Spirit Pewter Pendant on Adjustable Choker
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Native American Thompsonian Herbalism
Everyone owes a great debt to those men and women who began natural healing. They did the original work in their own way of observation and testing to locate those herbs they needed to save the lives of their tribal family. All natural healers, even modern medicine, are standing on the shoulders of those courageous individuals, and untold thousands owe their lives to them.
The majority of people worldwide assume that America has no named herbal tradition, that the only major herbal traditions of the world are Chinese Herbalism, Ayurvedic Herbalism (from India), and Homeopaths of Europe. Contrary to that belief, here in America our herbal medicine tradition began with the Native American Healers of the different tribes.
These Native American healers held a distinctive respected leadership position within the tribal society. They employed a combination of natural herbal treatments and spiritual ceremonies that were supported by everyone in the tribe. True natural healers today employ some of these same pholosophical beliefs and techniques.
When the European settlers came to these lands, many herbalists, botanists, and healers came with them. Of these, a group called the Eclectic Physicians were the first to approach the Native Healers to learn their herbal philosophies and the plants they used. The best known of the Eclectic’s healers is the same man to coin the term “Eclectic Physician.” His name was Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. To him, the term meant to use whatever worked to the benefit of the patient, or to bring them into alignment with nature. Being passionate about his craft, he moved in with the Native Americans to observe their techniques and plants.
The next step in this American herbal tradition came with the great healer Dr. Samuel Thompson (1769-1843). It was Thompson who acquired a broad knowledge of herbs and healing through his personal experience. His mother had died and his wife was nearly killed by the regular physicians (who became the Aellopaths of today). Thompson saved her using herbal medical techniques. From this experience he brought together the Native American and European philosophies and herbs to form Thompsonian Herbalism. Thompson became a very popular herbalist in the 1840’s and it is estimated that a full one fifth of the population of America used Thompsonian Herbalism to treat their diseases. His success was so great that many doctors and herbalists began calling themselves Thompsonians. These Thompsonian herbalists did not want to associate themselves with the “regular” physicians of their time who used drastic, toxic, and sometimes deadly techniques, much like today’s medical disaster.
Thompson believed what the father of medicine believed, that disease was really simple and theories made a needless mystery of medicine. He further believed that the mystery of medicine prevented ordinary people from taking responsibility for their own health. This confusion exists today and separates people from truly curing any disease. This is why modern medicine has outlawed the use of the word cure while looking for cures that they have never found and never will find.
In 1822, ten years into his successful practice Thompson wrote a book titled “New Guide to Health; or Botanic Family Physician.” Then Thompson began selling patents from his system of healing so that any American family could, for $20, solve their own disease problems. These patent holders were able to turn to Thompson’s herbal warehouse to purchase the formulas and, with a copy of his book, apply the successful herbal techniques. It was not long before this system began to be picked up in Europe where some of it’s original roots were located.
In America, this time of Thompsonian herbalism was a time of freedom of medical treatment which we miss today. Today, Thompson’s democratic approach to healing is finding a resurgence in America and across the world. If you do not want an aellopathic doctor involved in your health, that should be your choice, it is your life. If you paid for insurance it should be your choice to pick the treatment you want, whether that treatment is pharmaceutical drugs or herbal techniques. If it is herbal techniques you want, the Naturopathic Doctor you choose should be from the belief system of your choice not chosen by some state licenseing committee.
Paul Blake is deeply involved in Naturopathic Medicine. He used it to treat his own case of
cancer eighteen years ago. For more interesting information on improving your
health visit The Natural Path or
Paul?s Health Blog.
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