💫 Just Absolutely Fabulous! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ( )

Includes quite a few simple and decorative designs taken from beadwork and traditional Eastern Woodland motifs, which I find more attractive and usable than the large-scale romanticized Pictures of Indians like the cover picture. The designs based on Navajo sand paintings are exquisite, but I would worry about cultural appropriation issues - how can you make permanent something that is intended to be holy and ephemeral? I don't think the designer made a very good choice for the single design that represents the Northwest decorative tradition - it seems weaker than Haida art should be, as if it was made up of pieces rather than an organic whole. I think the artist may have tried to interpret and reinvent too many traditions that she did not adequately understand, but this book is worth the dollar I paid for it, anyway. ( )