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Infinity of nations art and history in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian edited by Cécile R. Ganteaume

Catalog Data

Editor:
Ganteaume, Cécile R  Search this
Author:
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)  Search this
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center  Search this
Subject:
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center  Search this
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
320 pages illustrations (chiefly color), color maps 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
History
Date:
2010
Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Infinity of nations: art and history in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, opening at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in New York City in October 2010"--Title page verso
Contents:
Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and Gran Chaco / Tom Dillehay [and others] -- The Andes / Tom Dillehay [and others] -- The Amazon / William H. Fisher [and others] -- Mesoamerica and the Caribbean / George Stuart [and others] -- The Southwest / Linda Cordell [and others] -- Plains and plateau / Janet Catherine Berlo [and others] -- The woodlands / David W. Penney [and others] -- California and the Great Basin / Steven M. Karr [and others] -- The Northwest Coast / Mary Jane Lenz [and others] -- The Arctic and subarctic / Stephen Loring [and others] -- Contemporary art / Kathleen Ash-Milby -- The collections of the National Museum of the American Indian / Cécile R. Ganteaume -- Broadway revival / John Haworth
Summary:
The National Museum of the American Indian houses one of the world's great cultural resources, with collections representing the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere from their earliest history to the present day. Featuring essays and contributions by leading regional specialists and groundbreaking young Native scholars, Infinity of Nations presents more than 200 never-before-published images of the museum's most significant objects, spanning thousands of years of artistic achievement. Following an introduction on the power of objects to engage our imagination, each chapter presents an overview of a region of the Americas and its cultural complexities, written by a noted specialist on that region. Community knowledge-keepers and an impressive new generation of Native scholars contribute highlights on objects that represent important ideas or that capture moments of social change. Together these writers create an extraordinary mosaic. What emerges is a portrait of a complex and dynamic world shaped from its earliest history by contact and exchange among peoples
Topic:
Indian art  Search this
Indians--History  Search this
Material culture  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Indians  Search this
Indians--Antiquities  Search this
Indians--Material culture  Search this
Call number:
E59.A7 I54 2010
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_952738