American Indian Art Magazine, Summer 2006 [SOLD]

American Indian Art Magazine, Vo. 31, No. 3, Summer 2006

Mary G. Hamilton, Publisher

Articles of Interest

QUINCY TAHOMA OF SANTA FE

By Vera Marie Badertscher and Charnell Havens

Addresses the many inaccuracies presented in previously published information about prolific Navajo painter Quincy Tahoma and sheds light on his evolution as an artist.

NATURE’S MIRROR: IMAGES AND ARTIFACTS FROM THE EDWARD S. CURTIS COLLECTION

By Brenda McLain and Tobi Taylor

The exhibit on display at the Arizona State Capitol Museum, Phoenix, until December 30, features twenty-three baskets collected by Curtis as well as an array of Curtis’s images, including some photographs in which baskets from Curtis’s collection appear.

“DELICATE SWEET DISHES TOO THEY MAKE:” BIRCHBARK ART IN THE ABBE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION

By Rebecca Cole-Will

Examines the birchbark collection of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, which contains 173 pieces that span the historic period of Wabanaki work in this medium.  Examples of birchbark objects in the collection include open dishes or bowls, covered boxes, and buckets sometimes referred to as mocucks.

SLIT POUCHES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

By Christian F. Feest

Offers a critical overview of the material, visual and textural evidence for slit pouches in Native North America, and on this basis delineates their distribution, discusses the variation of their forms and their relationships to other artifact types, attempts to make sense of the meaning embedded in their iconography and ends with some thoughts about their origins.