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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Educational booklets produced 1940–1945}}<br />
[[File:UCSD-Google-Hathi cover of Indian Handcraft Series booklet Pueblo Crafts by Ruth Underhill.jpg|thumb|Cover of Indian Handcraft Series booklet ''Pueblo Crafts'' (1944) by [[Ruth Underhill]]]]<br />
'''Indian Handcraft Series''' is a series of pamphlets produced between 1940 and 1945<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=McLerran |first=Jennifer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gc2AEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22indian+handcraft+series%22&pg=PA124 |title=A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943 |date=2022-08-16 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-5037-1 |pages=124 |language=en}}</ref> by the Education Department of the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs|United States Bureau of Indian Affairs]]. <br />
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The Indian Handcraft Series booklets outlined techniques and practices used by indigenous creators to produce baskets, clothing and other goods.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lyford |first1=Carrie A. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000622257 |title=Quill and beadwork of the western Sioux |last2=Beatty |first2=Willard W. |date=1940 |publisher=Printing dept., Haskell Institute |series=United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Indian handicraft1 |location=Lawrence, Kan.}}</ref> The intended audience was Native Americans themselves, in an effort to promote a revival of traditional practices; the booklets were used as instructional materials in Indian schools.<ref name=":0" /> The Indian Handcraft Series was one of three related series produced by the BIA education department, the others being bilingual Indian Life Readers produced under the direction of children's book author [[Ann Nolan Clark]] and the ethnographic Sherman Pamphlet Series, largely written by [[Ruth Underhill]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meyn |first=Susan L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NMVYlxRQCakC&dq=%22indian+handcraft+series%22&pg=PA168 |title=More Than Curiosities: A Grassroots History of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and Its Precursors, 1920-1942 |date=2001 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0-7391-0249-7 |pages=170 |language=en}}</ref> <br />
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* ''Quill and Beadwork of the Western Sioux'', by [[Carrie A. Lyford]]<br />
* ''Navajo Native Dyes,'' by [[Nonabah Bryan]] and [[Stella Young (ethnologist)|Stella Young]]<br />
* ''Seneca Splint Basketry'', by [[Marjorie Lismer]]<br />
* ''Ojibwa Crafts (Chippewa)'', by Carrie A . Lyford<br />
* ''Iroquois Crafts'', by Carrie A. Lyford<br />
* ''Pueblo Crafts'', by Ruth Underhill<br />
* ''Spruce Root Basketry of the Alaska Tlingit'', by [[Frances Paul]]<br />
* ''Blackfeet Crafts'', by [[John C. Ewers]]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Indian Arts and Crafts Board]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Books about Native American history]]<br />
[[Category:1940s books]]<br />
[[Category:United States Bureau of Indian Affairs]]</div>ReggieHuntley0