PLAINS INDIAN ART The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers [SOLD]


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  • Subject: The Plains Indians
  • Item # C4141X
  • Date Published: 2011
  • Size: 203 pages
  • SOLD

PLAINS INDIAN ART The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman

The essays trace the history of the pictorial art of Plains peoples from images on rock surfaces to the walls of modern museums, and offer insight into the graphic records of the Plains Indians.

 

CONTENTS

  1. A Century of Plains Indian Art Studies
  2. Plains Indian Painting: The History and Development of an American Art Form
  3. Images of the White Man in Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Art
  4. The Emergence of the Named Indian Artist in the American West
  5. Notes on the Weasel in Historic Indian Culture
  6. The Awesome Bear in Plains Indian Art
  7. Water Monsters in Plains Indian Art
  8. Spanish Cattle in Plains Indian Art
  9. A Century and a Half of Blackfeet Picture Writing
  10. A Unique Pictorial Interpretation of Blackfoot Indian Religion in 1846-1847
  11. Pipes for the Presidents
  12. Three Effigy Pipes by an Eastern Dakota Master Carver
  13. Assiniboine Antelope Horn Headdress
  14. Artists' Choices
  15. Plains Indian Artists and Anthropologists: A Fruitful Collaboration

 

  • Subject: The Plains Indians
  • Item # C4141X
  • Date Published: 2011
  • Size: 203 pages
  • SOLD

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