Record details

• ISBN: 0615881165
• ISBN: 9780615881164 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0615881165 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780615884493 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0615884490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 x 30 cm
• Edition: First Edition.
• Publisher: Los Angeles : Autry National Center of the American West, c2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 15, 2014-April 26, 2015 at the Autry National Center of the American West in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-252) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Cosmology : sacred foundations and floral imagery -- Adornment : history, trade, and transformation -- Native expressions. Gifts from the sun (The woodlands ; Southeastern woodlands ; Northeast woodlands ; The Great Lakes ; The Great Lakes bandolier bag) ; Flowers and furs (The subarctic ; The Cree ; The Métis ; The northern Athapaskan (Dene) ; The Delaware pouch) ; A floral gathering (The Prairie style) ; Strong medicine (The Great Plains) ; Power in the flower (The Plateau) ; Floral crossroads (The Great Basin ; The octopus bag) ; Flowers and formal attire (Indians and cowboys) -- Contemporary floral expressions. Contemporary expressions (The cultural contiinuum).

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Subject:

Indian beadwork > Exhibitions.
Decoration and ornament > Plant forms > North America > Exhibitions.