Plains Indian art : the pioneering work of John C. Ewers

9780806130613

xix, 203 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour map ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

A century of Plains Indian art studies
Plains Indian painting : the history and development of an American art form
Images of the white man in nineteenth-century Plains Indian art
The emergence of the named Indian artist in the American West
Notes on the weasel in historic Plains Indian culture
The awesome bear in Plains Indian art
Water monsters in Plains Indian art
Spanish cattle in Plains Indian art
A century and a half of Blackfeet picture writing
A unique pictorial interpretation of Blackfoot Indian religion in 1846/1847
Pipes for the presidents
Three effigy pipes by an Eastern Dakota master carver
Assiniboin Antelope-horn headdresses
Artists' choices
Plains Indian artists and anthropologists : a fruitful collaboration

2010051183

2310336

Greene, Candace S., writer of preface
Maurer, Evan M., writer of introduction
Robinson, Jane Ewers, editor