Record details

• ISBN: 0295972025 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780295972022 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0774804335 (UBC Press : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780774804332 (UBC Press : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: x, 244 pages : illustraions ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; c1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A McLellan book."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : the formative years of Native American art history / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Franz Boas, John Swanton, and the new Haida sculpture at the American Museum of Natural History / Aldona Jonaitis -- New questions for "old things" : the Brooklyn Museum's Zuni collection / Diana Fane -- Louisa Keyser and the Cohns : mythmaking and basket making in the American West / Marvin Cohodas -- "The artist himself" : the Salish basketry monograph and the beginnings of a Boasian paradigm / Ira Jacknis -- Lila Morris O'Neale : ethnoaesthetics and the Yurok-Karok basket weavers of northwestern California / Margot Blum Schevill -- Marketing the affinity of the primitive and the modern : René d'Harnoncourt and "Indian art of the United States" / W. Jackson Rushing.

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Subject:

Indian art > North America.
Indians of North America > Museums.
Indians of North America > Historiography.
Ethnological museums and collections > United States > History.
United States > Antiquities > Collection and preservation.