Wampanoag Art for the Ages, Traditional and Transitional - Paperback

This book is an Eric Hoffer award finalist for excellence in indie publishing.

Wampanoag Art for the Ages, Traditional and Transitional is the first and only book of its kind. With interviews of foremost Wampanoag artists accompanied by 80 color photos, the book looks at the lifeway of this Algonquian Cape Cod tribe which greeted the first colonists, through its arts. Starting in the wetu (home) the book goes on to look at pottery, wampum, clothing, adornment, matting, twining, finger weaving, contemporary arts and painting, and more -- with Wampanoag creators including: Annawon Weeden, Ramona Peters (Nosapocket), Elizabeth and Jonathan James-Perry, Julia Marden, Robert Peters, Emma Jo Mills Brennan, and Mother Bear. The book includes an appendix of where to see some of the works of art.