Ute Indian Arts and Culture
Subtitle: From Prehistory to the New Millennium
By: edited by William Wroth.
Contributors: Wroth, William, 1938-
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
Published: December 31, 2000
Place of publication: Colorado Springs, CO
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780916537128
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Ute Indians -- Art; Ute Indians -- History; Ute Indians -- Material culture; Ute Indians -- Social life and customs
Other titles: Mountain, Family, Spirit: Arts and Culture of the Ute Indians
Description: From the interior front flap:
The Ute Indians live on three reservations in Colorado and Utah: the Southern Ute tribe with headquarters at lgnacio, Colorado; the Ute Mountain Ute tribe with headquarters at Towaoc, Colorado (including a group living at White Mesa, Utah); and the northern Ute Tribe on the Uintah and Ouray reservation, with headquarters at Fort Duchesne, Utah. Historically and linguistically a division is made between the western Utes, who originally were basin dwellers, occupying lands in today's central and western Utah, and the eastern Utes, sometimes called the Colorado Utes, who were mountain people centered in the ranges of today's state of Colorado, with territory extending into New Mexico and Utah.

The eastern Ute people are the focus of this book. They developed a distinctive culture based upon their adaptation to the mountain environment in which they lived and their geographical location situated between Plains tribes to the east, Shoshonean tribes to the north and west, and Pueblos, Navajos and Apaches to the south. Their culture and history were further impacted by the arrival of the Spaniards in New Mexico in the sixteenth century and the Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century.

This publication documents the variety and rich traditions of Ute arts and culture with color illustrations of 139 historic artifacts and over 40 contemporary works, as well as numerous historic photographs of Ute life. Articles by Ute cultural leaders and other scholars provide groundbreaking studies of Ute prehistory, history, world view, culture and art.

The exhibition for which this book has been written has been a seven-year project, which included an inventory of approximately 2,000 objects of Ute origin or attribution found in more than twenty museums around the country. This publication seeks to reveal the incredible richness of Ute material culture and artistic sensibility, heretofore almost unknown. The goal is to make Ute Indian history and culture better known to the public at large and to take a first step toward identifying the characteristics of Ute art forms, which have not previously been clearly distinguished in the literature or in museum collections. Another goal has been to make available to a younger generation of Utes information in visual and written form about their heritage and the civilization from which they come.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition "Mountain, family, spirit : arts and culture of the Ute Indians", held at the Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, July 21-December 31, 2000; Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colo., April 1-September 30, 2001; Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, Cal., October 30, 2001-January 27, 2002; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, spring-summer 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction and Acknowledgments / William Wroth
pagenum: 3; title: Ute Creation Story / Told by Alden B. Naranjo and Monica Lujan
pagenum: 7; title: Traditions and History of the Caputa and Muache Bands and the Southern Ute People Today / Alden B. Naranjo
pagenum: 9; title: Ute Leaders of the Past / Terry G. Knight, Sr.
pagenum: 21; title: Traditional Cosmology. Ecology and Language of the Ute Indians / James A. Goss
pagenum: 27; title: Ute Civilization in Prehistory and the Spanish Colonial Period / William Wroth
pagenum: 53; title: The Ute Indians in Southern Colorado since 1850 / Richard N. Ellis
pagenum: 73; title: Great Basin Affiliations of the Ute Peoples of Colorado / Catherine S. Fowler
pagenum: 89; title: CATALOG SECTION 1 : HISTORIC
pagenum: 107; title: An Artistic Style Uniquely Their Own: Basketry, Parfleches and Beaded Clothing of the Ute People / Craig D. Bates
pagenum: 143; title: CATALOG SECTION 2 : HISTORIC
pagenum: 179; title: Contemporary Ute Crafts: Revival and Innovation / Cathy L. Wright
pagenum: 215; title: CATALOG SECTION 3 : CONTEMPORARY
pagenum: 227; title: Contributions
pagenum: 243; title: Index
pagenum: 244