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Show REVIEWS REFERENCES CITED Janetski, Joel C. 1991 The Ute of Utah Lake. Anthropological Papers No. 116. University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Simms, Steven R., Carol J. Loveland, and Mark E. Stuart 1991 Prehistoric Skeletal Remains and the Prehistory of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands. Report submitted to the Utah Department of Natural Resources Salt Lake City. State project No. 090UC090. The Student's Guide to Archaeological Illustrating, edited by Brian D. Dillon. Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024- 15 10. 1985. 185 pages, 106 illustrations. $ 15.00 ($ 3.00 shipping) soft cover. Reviewed by: Robert B. Kohl Jennifer Jack- Dixie Chapter Utah Statewide Archaeological Society P. 0. Box 1865 St. George, UT 84771 One of the largest problems - in preparing archaeologicalreports, and especially for avocationals, is locating some cooperative and accomplished illustrator to make the black- and- white drawings required. As a teenager working as a Saturday volunteer in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, I recall being amazed at the precision of an employee drawing a fish. Each scale was measured under magnification, each scale was precisely positioned as if it were a piece of art work unto itself. This book, published as Volume 1 of a series titled Archaeological Research Tools, can with practice turn an amateur sketcher into an archaeological artist who may become as accomplished as the museum artist I remember so well. The 13 chapters in the book, all written by experts in the illustration field, cover everything in the archaeological want list. Starting with a chapter on " Tools and Techniques," the book winds through chapters on " Archaeological Map Making," " Architectural Floor Plans," and " Architectural Reconstruction Drawings." There is a chapter on " Stratigraphic Sections," which can certainly be of immense help in completing those necessary but highly involved drawings for final reports on site work. Seven chapters cover the illustration of objects and artifacts from the stelae of the Mayans to the projectile points of Native North American Indians. Sequentially, they are titled " Relief Monuments," " Ceramics," " Special Problems in Ceramic Illustration," " Ceramic Figurines," " Stone Artifacts," and " Shell and Bone Artifacts." There is even a chapter titled " Burial Illustration." The book closes with a chapter titled " Archaeological Illustration from Photographs.'' There are tips for the cameraman, too, in positioning artifacts with both natural and artificial lighting. Short of an instructor looking over your shoulder in a classroom, I know of no other text that can teach so much in so short a time. There is no padding in this volume, it is all strictly drawing- business for the black- and- white illustrator. I would highly recommend it for anyone preoccupied with crow- quill pen, Indian ink, stippling, and shading blues. Indian Givers, by Jack Weatherford. Crown Publishers, New York. 1988. 272 pages. $ 17.95 hardcover. Reviewed by: Robert B. Kohl Jennifer Jack- Dixie Chapter Utah Statewide Archaeological Society P. 0. Box 1865 St. George, UT 84771 This may be the most attitude- adjusting volume in years to explore an unusual portion of the Native American lifestyle. In fact, this fascinating book is a sort of payment of an I. O. U. long overdue to the First Citizens of the New World. Ever since the white European invasion of the Americas, the popular stereotype of the Indian has been that of an indolent, illiterate, incompetent, and frequently savage sort of fellow. In diluted form some of that opinion exists today. Most of us, however, now recognize that this brainwash was created to justify somehow the taking of lands and |
