Tattoo Road Trip or Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners

Tattoo Road Trip: Southern California

Author: Robert E Baxter

Get up close and personal with Southern Californias most legendary and trend-setting tattoo artists. Join Skin & Ink magazine editor, Bob Baxter, as he drives from shop to shop in his 94 azure-blue Mustang. Follow along as he chats it up with Southern Californias living tattoo legends. Gather the inside info. Hear the spicy gossip. See the gorgeous gals and lusty men sport their traffic-stopping ink. Turn the pages. See their work in 565 color photos. Meet the artists. Take the trip! The Tattoo Road Trip! Featured artists include: Dave Gibson; Danielle Oberosler & Robert Atkinson; Shannon OSullivan; Mike Pike & Jojo Ackerman; Bob Roberts, Bryan Burke & Joe Vegas; Pat Fish; Jack Rudy; Judy Parker; Baba & Odie; Dottie M.; Corey Miller; Greg James; Patty Kelley; Fip Buchanan; Ethan Morgan; Steve Smith; Emelio Cusidor & Kerri Hodsdon; Kari Barba & Jeremiah Barba; Tennessee Dave James; John Saletra & Colin LaRocque; Riley Baxter; Shawn Warcot; Juan Puente, Mark Mahoney, Small Paul, & Chris Conn; Rori Keating; Baby Ray; and Eric Maaske.

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Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners

Author: William W Dunmir

Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners is the second book in a series by Dunmire and Tierney exploring native plant uses. Following the much-acclaimed Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province, this new book emphasizes prehistoric uses of plants in the Four Corners area, focusing on Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Aztec Ruins, Hovenweep, and other major sites of the region once occupied by the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, Hopi, and Apache peoples.

Dunmire and Tierney are able to eloquently illustrate the importance of the people-plant relationship that has existed throughout the ages among native peoples and how ancient traditional uses of these plants inform contemporary uses today. Through vignettes of background information drawn from lore and cultural traditions and interviews with tribal elders, Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners describes uses for edible, medicinal, and dye plants, as well as plants used for making baskets, tools, and shelters. Complementing these essays are profiles of fifty new trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and grasses common to traditional Native America.