paint & pencils...Your budding artist will be inspired by free-form drawing and creative play at this imagination-building little work station. The versatile design and tasteful, colorful, high-quality construction of this child's easel makes it a customer favorite. Generously sized, offering a dry erase board on one side, a chalkboard on the other...an easy-loading holder for easel board paper (see center of easel in photograph) and a paper cutter. For all those essential artist supplies you'll find two extra large plastic trays ideal for holding chalk, crayons, markers, brushes, paint and other artist tools. This standing easel also includes 4 colorful clips for posting artwork. ...  (less)

Franziska von Rosen present these instruments in a theoretically innovative setting organized around such abstract themes as complementarity, twinness, and relationship. As sources of metaphor—in both sound and image—instruments are interpreted within a framework that regards meaning as emergent and that challenges a number of previous ethnographic descriptions. Finally, the association between sound and motion—an association that illuminates the unity of music and dance and the life cycles of individual musical instruments—is explored.BRBRFeaturing over two hundred photographs of instruments, dialogues among the coauthors, numerous interviews with individual music makers, and an appended catalogue of over seven hundred instrument descriptions, this is an important book for all ethnomusicologists and students of Native American culture as well as general readers interested in Native American mythology and religious life./div  (less)