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Art of the American Indian frontier : the Chandler-Pohrt Collection
Record details
- ISBN: 0295971738
- ISBN: 9780295971735
- ISBN: 1550540416
- ISBN: 9781550540413
- ISBN: 0295706759
- ISBN: 9780295706757
- ISBN: 0295973188
- ISBN: 9780295973180
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Physical Description:
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368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm - Publisher: [Detroit] : Detroit Institute of Arts ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1992.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Art of the American frontier, organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts in association with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Exhibition schedule: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 24, 1992-January 24, 1993; Seattle Art Museum, March 11-May 9, 1993; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, June 18-September 12, 1993; the Detroit Institute of Arts, October 15, 1993-February 6, 1994--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Art of the American Indian frontier -- Expressions of ethnicity: nineteenth-century dress -- Metonym and metaphor: public and private meanings in sculpture, engraiving, and painting -- American Indian dress: the techniques of ethnic expression -- Woodlands and prairies -- Clothing accessories of the early nineteenth century: porcupine quill and buckskin -- Early finger-woven textiles -- Heddle-woven garters and sashes -- Warp-faced twined bags -- Great Lakes and Midwest dress, 1830-1850 -- Embroidery of the Southeast before 1830 -- Early loom-woven beadwork -- Turbans and bearclaw necklaces -- Synthesis and innovation: the prairie style, 1860-1900 -- Later woven beadwork -- Later twined and finger-woven textiles -- Formal dress at the close of the nineteenth century -- Plains -- Early dress of the "Upper Missouri style" -- Early seed bead embroidery: the emergence of tribal style -- Parfleche: rawhide painting -- Between cultures: dress of the Red River Metis -- Later dress and decorative arts of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowa -- Later dress and decorative arts of the Sioux -- Later dress and decorative arts of the Crow and the "Transmontane style" -- Later dress and decorative arts of the Northwest Plains: Mandan, Blackfeet, and Gros Ventre -- The measure of men: feather bonnets -- Objects and images -- Great Lakes and prairies -- Exchanges of trust -- Weapons of war -- Smoking pipes: pleasing the spirits -- Tools as sculpture -- Vessels and utensils: bowls and spoons -- Images as effigies -- The language of pictographs -- Plains -- Clubs and coup sticks -- Elk antler quirts -- The gift of red stone: Plains smoking pipes -- Feasts for power: bowls and spoons -- Visionary painting -- Pictographs as history -- The Miami war pipe / Milford G Chandler -- A collector's life: a memoir of the Chandler-Pohrt collection / Richard A. Pohrt -- Richard A. Pohrt / George P. Horse Capture -- Collecting and the meaning of collections. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | E 99 .A7 A1 P46 1992 | 680501 | Stacks | Available | - |