xiv, 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm
Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tipi : Heritage of the Great Plains, organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn Museum, Feb. 18-May 15, 2011; Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, Jun. 17-Sep. 11, 2011; Minnesota History Center, spring 2012"--T.p. verso Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Map of the Great Plains The tipi : heritage of the Great Plains / Nancy B. Rosoff pt. 1. The quintessential American architectural form The art of tipi living / Emma I. Hansen The Arapaho tipi / Dennis Sun Rhodes Ashtáahile (Crow tipis) / Heywood and Mary Lou Big Day The rain-in-the-face tipi liner / Susan Kennedy Zeller A modern Cheyenne-Arapaho tipi liner / Harvey Pratt Of tipis and stereotypes / Bently Spang pt. 2. The center of family life "To honor her kindred" : women's arts centered in the tipi / Barbara A. Hail Kiowa beadwork in the twenty-first century / Teri Greeves Tipis and the warrior tradition / Daniel C. Swan and Michael P. Jordan The tipi of the Kiowa Tonkongya (Black Leggings Warrior Society) / Dixon Palmer and Lyndreth Palmer Growing up on the Plains / Christina E. Burke
