Product Description: Native American Art at Dartmouth is the fourth in a series of comprehensive exhibitions and catalogues showcasing the permanent collection. This fully illustrated catalogue features contributions by the show s guest curators George P...read more

Product Description: pp. 5 272.""Uncommon Legacies" celebrates the power, significance, and exceptional artistic quality of one of the most important collections of early Native American art. Assembled in the course of trade and missionary activities beginning in the late eighteenth century, the spectacular examples illustrated provide a rare opportunity to observe the creativity of Native artists in...read more

Product Description: Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustave Heye Center, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in NY, this handsome, oversize (10.25x12.5) catalogue features several pithy essays on the collecting, aesthetics, and the spiritual content of American Indian art...read more

Product Description: Even the earliest European explorers to the Americas collected objects made by native people. The ongoing fascination with the artistic and cultural expressions of American Indian people is documented historically, along with a close look at seven midwestern collections...read more

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Product Description: Published to accompany an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this handsome catalogue brings together well over one hundred Native North American works of art from the collection of Charles and Valerie Diker. Representing many different peoples and traditions and a wide variety of materials and functions, these superb objects reflect the great cultural and artistic diversity of the Native peoples of the western hemisphere...read more

Product Description: Fully illustrated catalog with scholarly essays by curator Innis Schumacher documents the career and venturesome collection of Philadelphia modernist Earl Horter. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reservation X was the name of a stunning exhibition that opened in the First Peoples' Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. It consisted of installations by seven of North America's foremost native artists: Mary Longman, Shelly Niro, Marianne Nicolson, C. Maxx Stevens, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Mateo Romero, and Jolene Rickard. The book includes 8 full pages of colour photographs of each artist's work, essays inspired by the thesis of the exhibition and illustrated with archival photos, critical biographies of the artists, and statements by and photos of the artists themselves. Both the exhibition and book explore the concept of community and the many contradictions and dislocations between life on and off the reserve.

Product Description: A collection of 18 essays to accompany an exhibit at Florida State's Museum of Fine Arts, February to March 1998 and the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida April to May 1998. Dotted with photographs of pieces, they cover the artification of the indigenous artifact; blurred boundaries: contact, confluence, and hybridity; misconceptions about the American Indian; photography; contemporary native and non- native artists in a fine-arts museum; and regional and pan-Indian art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Contains the text of the Report of the Regional Consultative Meeting on Environmentally Sound and Sustainable Development Indicators, held in Bangkok in November 1996, as well as background documents, and a review of the work done on compiling indicators of sustainable development for the region...read more

An exploration of useful and artistic objects of Native American life reveals how such items as clothing, cradleboards, and decoys reflect customs and beliefs and perpetuate cultures

Presents a collection of Native American art that demonstrates cultural thought and expression

Accompanying the exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, an exploration of useful and artistic objects of native life reveals how such items as clothing, cradleboards, and decoys reflect customs and beliefs and perpetuate cultures. UP.

Product Description: The Flag in American Indian Art

Product Description: Shows and describes Indian textiles, carvings, weapons, tools, baskets, and pottery.

Product Description: Published in conjunction with the exhibition Revisions, held at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (January 8 - 28, 1988); this catalogue highlights eight aboriginal artists, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Jimmie Durham, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Zacharias Kunuk, Mike MacDonald, Alan Michelson, Edward Poitras, and Pierre Sioui, and their attempts to grapple with the problem of representing "Indianness" outside of a paternalistic and colonialist celebration of indigenous culture...read more

Product Description: Catalog for Feb 28, 1984-May 27, 1984 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Map. Exhibition checklist. Bibliography. Nicely illustrated in color. Covers large expanses of North American Indians, with works from the Plains, California, Northwest Coast, etc.