Spirits in the Art: From the Plains and Southwest Indian Cultures [SOLD]

SPIRITS IN THE ART: From the Plains and Southwest Cultures

By James. A. Hanson - Autographed

Publisher The Lowell Press, Kansas City, 1994

Hardback with slip cover, first edition, 1994, 262 pages, profusely illustrated in color

Contents

Part One: What Do We Know of the Past?

Part Two: People of the Plains

1.     Soldiers and Spirits: The Plains Indian Man

2.     The Person Made Magic and Beautiful

3.     Feathers and Headdresses

4.     Smoking

5.     The Next Generation

6.     Teaching Tools

7.     White Man Things

Part Three: People of the Southwest

8.     San Lazaro

9.     Asking the Spirits for Help

10.  Turkey Stones and Dragonflies

11.  The World of the Panther

12.  Flexibility Means Survival

13.  Solving the Riddle

14.  Saxony Serapes and Germantown Eyedazzlers

Part Four: Corn Planters and Tree Dwellers

Part Five: The Rim of the Universe

From the Jacket

Over 900 objects are illustrated in 264 color plates.  The collection, assembled over 50 years by noted art dealer Forrest Fenn and his father, contains never-before seen works of Plains and Southwest Indian Art.  The objects include the largest collection extant of Kiowa and Comanche footwear and strike-a-light bags, 12,000-year-old cache of Clovis Man spear points, unique artifacts, from long abandoned San Lazaro Pueblo, and a large assemblage of plains and southwestern beaded and quilled objects. 

Included with this book is the price list from when Nedra Matteucci’s Fenn Galleries had many of these items for sale. Asking prices ranged from $1200 to $36,000.