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Three centuries of Woodlands Indian art : a collection of essays /

"The art and objects of the Indians of the eastern Woodlands, past and present, are given full attention in this lavishly illustrated volume. Leading scholars from Europe and North America discuss the cultural significance of Native art and objects as well as examine the composition and history...

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Corporate Author: Museum of Mankind
Other Authors: King, J. C. H. (Jonathan C. H.), Feest, Christian F.
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: [Germany] : ZKF Publishers, [2007]
Subjects:
Woodland Cree art > Congresses.
Woodland Cree > Congresses.
First Nation art > History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
ISBN:9783981162004
3981162005
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / J.C.H. King
  • Early collections from the North American Woodlands in Scotland / Dale Idiens
  • Early Woodlands material at the Musée d'Yverdon / Christian F. Feest
  • Caldwell and DePeyster : two collectors from the King's regiment on the Great Lakes in the 1770s and 1780s / Simon Jones
  • German collections from the American Revolution / Christian F. Feest
  • The decorative art of securing captives in the Eastern Woodlands / R.S. Stephenson
  • "Markes upon their clubhamers" : interpreting pictography on Eastern war clubs / Scott Meachum
  • Ball-headed clubs in nineteenth-century Europe : projecting power among Woodlands performers / J.C.H. King
  • Captains coats / David W. Penney
  • Propitiation, instruction, commission : survival arts of the James Bay Cree / Cath Oberholtzer
  • On missionaries, artists, bears, and "grandfathers" : Peter Rindisbacher's paintings, John White's collection, and the Red River Ojibwa / Laura Peers
  • A devout collector : Johann Georg Schwarz and early nineteenth-century Menominee art / Sylvia S. Kasprycki
  • North American Woodlands art in the Manchester Museum Collection / George Bankes
  • Early Iroquois realist painting and identity marking / William C. Sturtevant
  • "From wigwam to white lights" : Princess White Deer's Indian acts / Trudy Nicks and Ruth B. Phillips
  • On building the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center / Jack Campisi
  • The Woodlands exhibited at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, 1986-1999 / Shepard Krech III
  • "The art reflects the people" : perspectives on works by contemporary Iroquois artists / Doris I. Stambrau
  • Haudenosaunee art : "in the shadow of the eagle" / Jolene Rickard.

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