Record details

• ISBN: 1560984511 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9781560984511 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 156098452X (paper : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9781560984528 (paper : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
• Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, c1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York City, Oct. 1994-Feb. 1998.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Mysterious powers / Joseph Medicine Crow -- The sense of process / Rina Swentzell -- Translating the past / Lloyd Kiva New -- The proper way / Earl Nyholm -- Beauty in the desert / Richard Milanovich -- Beautiful history / Edgar Perry -- A weaver's point of view / D.Y. Begay -- The art of balance / Conrad House -- To know the future / Emil Her Many Horses -- Discovering the levels of meaning / Gerald McMaster -- Made with prayer / Abe Conklin -- Cultural objects of the Federación Interprovincial de Centros Shuar-Achuar / Miguel Puwainchir & Felipe Tsenkush -- Aymara traditions / Bonifacia Quispe Fernandez & Tomás Huanca Laura -- Community as identity / Manuel Ríos Morales -- Preserving our culture / Alejandro Flores Huatta & Paula Quispe Cruz -- Recovering lost ways / Teofila Palafox Herranz & Juan Olivares -- A question of survival / Tom Hill -- So the spirit can move freely / Susan Billy -- Bringing back hope / Linda Poolaw.

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Indians > Material culture > Exhibitions.
Indians > Social life and customs > Exhibitions.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) > Exhibitions.