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Becoming Mary Sully
Toward an American Indian Abstract
Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America’s first generation of celebrities...
ISBN: 9780295745046
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Hearts of Our People
Native Women Artists
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world. This landmark book includes works of art...
ISBN: 9780295745794
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Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry
The Art, the Artists, the History
Indigenous hand-engraved jewelry from the Pacific Northwest Coastis among the most distinctive, innovative, and highly sought-after art being produced in North America today. But these artworks are...
ISBN: 9780295745893
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Shifting Grounds
Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging in the creations of contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically...
ISBN: 9780295745367
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Proud Raven, Panting Wolf
Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks...
ISBN: 9780295743936
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Incorporating Culture
How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry
Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local artistic and cultural practice. But what happens when local communities become more involved in...
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Before Yellowstone
Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research...
ISBN: 9780295742205
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Sonny Assu
A Selective History
Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective...
ISBN: 9780295742113
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Preston Singletary
Raven and the Box of Daylight
The story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing the stars, moon, and sun, holds great significance to the...
ISBN: 9780972664950
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Northwest Coast Indian Art
An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition
The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest...
ISBN: 9780295994277
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In the Spirit of the Ancestors
Contemporary Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum
In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the vitality of contemporary Pacific Northwest Coast art by showcasing a selection of objects from the Burke Museum's collection of more than 2,400...
ISBN: 9780295995212
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The Raven Steals the Light
This new edition of a collaboration between one of the finest living artists in North America and one of Canada’s finest poets includes a new introduction by the distinguished anthropologist Claude...
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The Changing Presentation of the American Indian
Museums and Native Cultures
Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of American Indians. This book brings together six prominent...
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T.C. Cannon
At the Edge of America
T. C. Cannon is one of the most influential and inventive Native American artists of the twentieth century. At work during the socially and politically turbulent 1960s and 1970s, Cannon created a...
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Objects of Myth and Memory
American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum
ISBN: 9780872731226
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A Wealth of Thought
Franz Boas on Native American Art
Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also...
ISBN: 9780295973845
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Contemporary Coast Salish Art
By carving, weaving, and painting their stories into ceremonial and utilitarian objects, Coast Salish artists render tangible the words and ideas that have been the architecture of this remarkable...
ISBN: 9780295984858
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Lelooska
The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist
Don Smith - or Lelooska, as he was usually called - was a prominent Native American artist and storyteller in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1933 of “mixed blood” Cherokee heritage, he...
ISBN: 9780295983240
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Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau
From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and...
ISBN: 9780295971605
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Baleen Basketry of the North Alaskan Eskimo
Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whales—a malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics today—were...
ISBN: 9780295976853
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