Art of the American Indian Frontier : The Chandler-Pohrt Collection

Name: Art of the American Indian Frontier : The Chandler-Pohrt Collection
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ISBN: 9780295971735

ISBN-10: 0295971738

ISBN-13: 9780295971735

Edition: 1992

Authors: David W. Penney

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The Detroit Institute of Arts possesses an incomparable collection of 19th-century Native American art from the North American woodlands, prairie, and plains, presented here with detailed documentation and commentary. Clothing and accessories of porcupine quill and buckskin, woven textiles, bags, beadwork, necklaces, rawhide paintings, smoking pipes, tools, vessels and utensils, pictographs, and visionary paintings are portrayed in 220 stunning color plates. Complementing the illustrations are essays dealing with historical context, ethnographic issues, and the lives and philosophies of the collectors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Language: English

Foreword	p. 11
Preface	p. 13
Introduction: Art of the American Indian Frontier	p. 19
Expressions of Ethnicity: Nineteenth-Century Dress	p. 28
Metonym and Metaphor: Public and Private Meanings in Sculpture, Engraving, and Painting	p. 55
American Indian Dress: The Techniques of Ethnic Expression
Woodlands and Prairies
Clothing Accessories of the Early Nineteenth Century: Porcupine Quill and Buckskin	p. 69
Early Finger-Woven Textiles	p. 74
Heddle-Woven Garters and Sashes	p. 80
Warp-Faced Twined Bags	p. 84
Great Lakes and Midwest Dress, 1830-1850	p. 87
Embroidery of the Southeast before 1850	p. 97
Early Loom-Woven Beadwork	p. 101
Turbans and Bearclaw Necklaces	p. 107
Synthesis and Innovation: The Prairie Style, 1860-1900	p. 114
Later Woven Beadwork	p. 120
Later Twined and Finger-Woven Textiles	p. 126
Formal Dress at the Close of the Nineteenth Century	p. 136
Plains
Early Dress of the "Upper Missouri Style"	p. 149
Early Seed Bead Embroidery: The Emergence of Tribal Style	p. 155
Parfleche: Rawhide Painting	p. 167
Between Cultures: Dress of the Red River Metis	p. 172
Later Dress and Decorative Arts of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowa	p. 178
Later Dress and Decorative Arts of the Sioux	p. 186
Later Dress and Decorative Arts of the Crow and the "Transmontane Style"	p. 195
Later Dress and Decorative Arts of the Northwest Plains: Mandan, Blackfeet, and Gros Ventre	p. 204
The Measure of Men: Feather Bonnets	p. 215
Objects and Images
Great Lakes and Prairies
Exchanges of Trust	p. 223
Weapons of War	p. 227
Smoking Pipes: Pleasing the Spirits	p. 232
Tools as Sculpture	p. 237
Vessels and Utensils: Bowls and Spoons	p. 240
Images as Effigies	p. 246
The Language of Pictographs	p. 251
Plains
Clubs and Coup Sticks	p. 261
Elk Antler Quirts	p. 264
The Gift of Red Stone: Plains Smoking Pipes	p. 267
Feasts for Power: Bowls and Spoons	p. 273
Visionary Painting	p. 279
Pictographs as History	p. 288
The Miami War Pipe	p. 295
A Collector's Life: A Memoir of the Chandler-Pohrt Collection	p. 299
Richard A. Pohrt	p. 323
Collecting and the Meanings of Collections	p. 338
Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 357
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