Plains Indian art
Subtitle: the pioneering work of John C. Ewers
By: edited by Jane Ewers Robinson ; preface by Candace S. Greene ; introduction by Evan M. Maurer
Contributors: Robinson, Jane Ewers
Series: The Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West -- v. 8; Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West -- v. 8.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780806130613
Subjects: Indian painting; Social life and customs; Picture-writing; Carving (Decorative arts); Indians of North America; Animals in art; Indian art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A century of Plains Indian art studies; title: Plains Indian painting : the history and development of an American art form; title: Images of the white man in nineteenth-century Plains Indian art; title: The emergence of the named Indian artist in the American West; title: Notes on the weasel in historic Plains Indian culture; title: The awesome bear in Plains Indian art; title: Water monsters in Plains Indian art; title: Spanish cattle in Plains Indian art; title: A century and a half of Blackfeet picture writing; title: A unique pictorial interpretation of Blackfoot Indian religion in 1846/1847; title: Pipes for the presidents; title: Three effigy pipes by an Eastern Dakota master carver; title: Assiniboin Antelope-horn headdresses; title: Artists' choices; title: Plains Indian artists and anthropologists : a fruitful collaboration.