Title: Native Arts of the Columbia Plateau
Subtitle: The Doris Swayze Bounds Collection
Description: This book brings overdue recognition to the artistry and craftsmanship of the Plateau Indians by focusing on the remarkable collection amassed by the late Doris Swayze Bounds, a banker in Hermiston, Oregon, who grew up with and deeply loved Native people and their culture. She was loved in return, and many of the nearly one thousand Plateau items in her collection came to her as gifts from her Indian friends who expressed their respect and affection in their time-honored tradition of gift-giving.

Exposed to Euro-Americans relatively late, the Plateau Indians managed to retain many of their traditional lifeways of fishing, hunting, and gathering, as well as a vigorous ethic of generosity and respect for others. The pieces in the Bounds collection, which date mainly from the 1870s to the 1960s, reflect all these aspects of Plateau culture. They range from sturdy baskets made to hold roots or berries to elaborately beaded elkhide "tail dresses" worn on festive occasions.
Subjects: Doris Swayze Bounds--Ethnological collections., High Desert Museum (Bend Or.)--Ethnological collections., Columbia Plateau--Antiquities., Indian art--Columbia Plateau., Indians of North America--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Columbia Plateau., Indians of North America--Columbia Plateau--Material culture., Indians of North America, Indians of North America -- Material culture., Indians of North America -- Art., Roger J. Bounds Foundation, Indians of North America -- Plateau region., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- History., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- Material culture., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- Clothing., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- Horse trappings., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- Utensils., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- Beadwork., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- Nez Perce Indians., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- Yakama Indians., Indians of North America -- Plateau -- Cayuse Indians., Material culture, Indian art, Antiquities, Collectors and collecting, Ethnological collections, High Desert Museum (Bend, Or.)
Places: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Columbia River Plateau
People: Roger Jackson Bounds (1903-1960), Doris Swayze Bounds (1904-1994)