Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?id=9090&N=6595+6610+4294966127 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534234 The traveling exhibition Art of the American Indians: the Thaw Collection organized by the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, features 111 aesthetic masterpieces from regions throughout North America. These objects date from well before European contact to the present and illustrate the continuing vitality of American Indian art. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534297 Provides an overview of the history and highlights of the museums extensive Native American collections, and details the recently completed physical and intellectual transformation of the gallery devoted to these items--which are now presented in artist-centered displays supported by multimedia interactives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534348 Discusses the history of the onion-domed whalers hat, mentioned as early as the 1700s by travelers to the Pacific Northwest. The hat was a status symbol as well as a ritual item, symbolizing respect for the whale, the importance of the whale hunt and a successful outcome. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534291 A pair of exhibitions at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum in Riverside, California through November 13, 2011 presents two views of Native American art. American Traditional Crafts features items used in daily life, and American Indian Women Artists: Beyond Craft includes contemporary work by Anita Fields (Osage), Paul Courtney Gold (Wasco/Tlingit), Teri Greeves (Kiowa) and Margaret Wood (Din [Navajo]/Seminole). http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534261 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534318 Presents and overview of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, the Netherlands, which houses approximately 2,600 specimens from American Indians, most collected by Dutch scientists, settlers, travelers and tourists. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534294 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1051360 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534376 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534269 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890450 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892162 Surveys the bow-spear (or bow lance) in Plains Indian art and discusses depictions of this weapon on robes as well as in ledger and rock art. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892321 Examines the objects collected by John Maclean, a Methodist minister who worked among and wrote about the Bloods of southern Canada in the late nineteenth century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889662 An overview of an exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art featuring the collection of Dr. Thomas St. Germain Whitecloud III and his wife Mercedes, one the few collections of Native art amassed by collectors of Native descent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534329 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891008 Recounts the life of soldier and politician John A. Logan and proposes that Logan, who served as both a U.S. congressman and senator, acquired most of the 120 objects in the collection that bears his name while on fact-finding expeditions for the congressional Military and Indian Affairs committees. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890430 Presents an overview of the exhibition, Premires Nations--Collections Royales, at the new Muse du quai Branly, Paris which illustrates that this museum preserves the singled largest collection in the world of seventeenth- and eighteenth century American Indian artifacts from eastern North America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534271 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890745 Surveys Plateau horse masks which, in use by the tribes since the 1600s, have been reserved for use in parades and other celebratory occasions since the reservation area. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891719 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892967 Depictions of shield-bearing warriors at the Bear Gulch and Atherton Canyon rock art sites in central Montana are shown wearing unique, long-nosed headdresses. Suggests that these headdresses represent Plains warriors wolf hats, and were an important part of the war regalia of some warriors who created self-portraits at these two sites. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892826 Presents the original documentation received with objects in the War Department collection, assembled in the 1820s and 1830s, as distinguished from the layers of attribution and assumption that have accrued during their 140-year history at the Smithsonian Institution, as a starting point for more detailed study of these objects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889427 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889492 Discusses the exhibition Remix: new modernities in a post Indian world, which opens at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, on Oct. 6, 2007, and travels to the Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, N.Y. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889490 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892542 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891657 Discusses the exhibit on display at the Arizona State Capitol Museum, Phoenix, until Dec. 30, 2006, which features 23 baskets collected by Edward S. Curtis as well as an array of Curtiss images, including some photographs in which baskets from Curtiss collection appear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892514 Offers a critical overview of the material, visual and textual 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 some sense of the meaning embedded in their iconography and ends with some thoughts about their origins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890245 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892487 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891348 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891563 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534352 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890906 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1051339 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890776 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892120 Discusses the histories of various public collections of Native American material in Liverpool, England, by way of introducing the North American collections of the Liverpool Museum which will open a new Native American permanent gallery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890013 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=841613 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892711 Detailed study of the interior house screen of the Gaanaxteid Whale House in the Chilkat Tlingit village of Klukwan, Alaska, which has been attributed to both Tlingit and Tsimshian artists ever since it was first written about in detail by ethnographer George Thornton Emmons in 1916. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892048 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890792 Brings together for the first time all of the archaeological evidence for Northwest Coast masks, which is limited to representations of masks as carvings or effigies on stone, wood or antler objects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892085 Discusses a collection of artwork created by Zuni students that reflects the Zuni worldview as well as the role of art in Indian schools in the decades prior to the Second World War. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889062 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890850 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892356 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1051272 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891949 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890898 Discusses six packs of playing cards made by the Ojibwa, Yupik, Blackfoot, Thompson (Niakapamux) and two unknown tribes that were modeled on printed paper cards of French and English origin. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890437 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889905 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889805 Discusses approximately eighty-five objects now housed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in Richmond, England. These items, all made from plant-based materials, were collected from Canadian tribes during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890266 Presents an overview of the history of the Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, Mass. and discusses Remembering 1704: commemoration and context of the Deerfield raid, an exhibit incorporating perspectives of the participating Kanienkehaka, Abenaki and Wendat-Huron communities as well as the English and French. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891538 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890299 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891283 Demonstrates that mail-order curio catalogs in the Southwest and Rocky Mountains document shifting trends in the marketing and collecting of Native American artifacts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890478 The Frank T. Siebert collection of Native American art, on display at the Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, showcases objects collected by Siebert, a medical doctor who worked over a sixty-year period documenting Algonquian languages. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890777 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889996 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891094 Reviews the history and development of jump dance baskets, produced principally by the Hupa, Yurok and Karuk tribes of northwestern California. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892038 On display at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, the Pearsall collection showcases 240 objects, from four geographical areas, collected by Leigh Morgan Pearsall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891610 Written in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of 65 portraits by Edward S. Curtis, the article revisits past assessments of the photographs, which have alternately been celebrated as constituting the irreducible truth about Native Americans or castigated for their artifice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890711 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890373 Discusses the coiled basketry caps made by various tribes in central California, describes their characteristics and places them within a cultural context. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=35053 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891017 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892144 Presents an overview of the history of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. and discusses Power and beauty, the first exhibit in the museums new gallery devoted to its Native American collections. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891174 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889250 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889370 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892042 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892624 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891606 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889115 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889583 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892876 Overview of the exhibition Uncommon legacies: Native American art from the Peabody Essex Museum, which focuses on objects collected before 1860 by maritime merchants, explorers, soldiers and missionaries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892053 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892633 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892894 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1051256 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892892 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890425 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892944 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889303 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891620 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1051712 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892992 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891539 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=892762 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890817 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=889571 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=890926 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534227 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534310 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1051551 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=891605