Arnow, Jan. By Southern
Hands: A Celebration of Craft Traditions in the South.
Oxmoor,
1987. $34.95. Features Coushatta pinestraw baskets, Houma palmetto
baskets, cornshuck bags, Coushatta and Houma dolls, Houma model
boats, Cajun accordions, wooden boats, Mardi Gras Indian costumes,
Cajun Mardi Gras masks, duck decoys, Acadian textiles, and nets
from Louisiana.
Fricker, Jonathan, Donna
Fricker, and Patricia Duncan. Louisiana Architecture:
A Handbook on Styles
. Center for Louisiana
Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1998. A concise survey of
architectural styles from French Creole to Art Deco.
Poesch, Jesse and Barbara
SoRelle Bacot. Louisiana Buildings 1720 -1940.
Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
Wilson, Charles, et al. The
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. UNC Press, 1989.
This large,
accessible volume covers hundreds of topics, including many on
material culture, crafts, and decorative arts, useful for older
students and teachers, available in many public libraries, 1,656
pages, $69.95.