The Early years of Native American art history : the politics of scholarship and collecting / edited by Janet Catherine Berlo.

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[1992], ©1992
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Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : UBC Press, [1992], ©1992.

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x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes

"A McLellan book."

Contents

Introduction : the formative years of Native American art history / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Franz Boas, John Swanton, and the new Haida sculpture at the American Museum of Natural History / Aldona Jonaitis -- New questions for "old things" : the Brooklyn Museum's Zuni collection / Diana Fane -- Louisa Keyser and the Cohns : mythmaking and basket making in the American West / Marvin Cohodas -- "The artist himself" : the Salish basketry monograph and the beginnings of a Boasian paradigm / Ira Jacknis -- Lila Morris O'Neale : ethnoaesthetics and the Yurok-Karok basket weavers of northwestern California / Margot Blum Schevill -- Marketing the affinity of the primitive and the modern : René d'Harnoncourt and "Indian art of the United States" / W. Jackson Rushing.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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