ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN—THE THAW COLLECTION [SOLD]

ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN-THE THAW COLLECTION

Eva Fognell, editor

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, 2010

First edition, softcover, new copy, 175 pages, profusely illustrated

CONTENTS

Foreword by Paul S. D’Ambrosio

Introduction: Eugene and Clare Thaw’s Collection of American Indian Art by Eva Fogell

Understanding the Thaw Collection: Native American Art History in the 21^st Century

            By Janet Catherine Berlo

Woodlands: Three Great Lakes Bags from the Thaw Collection by Ruth B. Phillips

Plains, Prairie and Plateau: “Something Sacred Wears Me” – Clothing Traditions on the Great

            Plains and Plateau by Janet Catherine Berlo & Joe D. Horse Capture

Southwest: Looking at a Mimbres Bowl by Steven A. LeBlanc

California and the Great Basin

            Textured Stories: Three California Baskets by Jessica Horton

Northwest Coast: The Art and Culture of Food on the Northwest Coast

            By Aldona Jonaitis

Arctic and Subarctic: The Powers of Ivory

            By Norman Vorano

Published in conjunction with the traveling expedition Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection, organized by the Fennimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y. This exhibit was on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 7-May 30, 2010; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, October 24, 2010-January 9, 2011; Indianapolis Museum of Art, December 4, 2011-February 12, 2012.