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My Hands Are the Tools of My Soul: Art and Poetry of the American Indian

• 1975 ----- color ----- 54 min ----- vhs
• American Indian art emphasizes the harmony of nature and our relationship to the environment. Iroquois mask-maker Jake Thomas carves a mask out of a living tree; a woman wears cloth of her own design; artisans fashion traditional reed baskets, slab and coil-built pottery; dolls represents the Katchina spirits of energy, power and life force. Indian poetry and music support the theme that "the process of artistic creation, the doing, is as important as the end product."
• Topics: (American Indian Studies, Art: Tribal)

		Educational Media Collection risimiki@u.washington.edu Modified: January 11, 2007