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- 1 2 3 4 Patricia Janis Broder (10 December 2013). Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women. St. Martin's Press. pp. 384–. ISBN 978-1-4668-5972-2.
- 1 2 Susan W. Fair (2006). Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity. University of Alaska Press. pp. 218–. ISBN 978-1-889963-79-2.
- ↑ Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions . G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
- ↑ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-135-63889-4.
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