Great Lakes Indian art
By: edited by David W. Penney.
Contributors: Penney, David W.; Detroit Institute of Arts.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press, and the Detroit Institute of Arts
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Chandler, Milford G., 1889-1981 -- Art collections.; Pohrt, Richard A., 1911- -- Art collections.; Detroit Institute of Arts.; Indian art -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"First appeared as a special issue of the Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol. 62, no. 1, 1986) devoted to the museum's Chandler/Pohrt collection of Native American art"--Foreword.
Table of contents: title: Great Lakes Indian art : an introduction / by David W. Penney; title: Representational and symbolic forms in Great Lakes-area wooden sculpture / by Evan M. Maurer; title: Horse imagery in Native American art / by David W. Penney and Janet Stouffer; title: Dreams and designs : iconographic problems in Great Lakes twined bags / by Ruth Bliss Phillips; title: Beaded twined bags of the Great Lakes Indians / by Nancy Oestreich Lurie; title: "He heard something laugh" : otter imagery in the Midéwiwin / by Julia Harrison; title: Pipe tomahawks from Michigan and the Great Lakes area / by Richard A. Pohrt.