Treasures Of The National Museum Of The American Indian

Author : National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 : 9780789201058
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Download or read book Treasures of the National Museum of the American Indian written by National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. Spanning more than ten thousand years, the one million objects in the museum's collections represent the extraordinary scope of Indian life in the Americas. From ancient stone points to contemporary Indian paintings, these objects make vividly clear the diversity and vigorous creativity of Native cultures from the Arctic to the southern tip of South America.

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789208415
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Download or read book Treasures of the National Museum of the American Indian written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Tiny Folio volume provides an impressive overview of the most significant collection of art by Native Americans anywhere in the world. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and the arts of Native Americans. The museum’s collections span more than 10,000 years and—as this lavishly illustrated miniature volume demonstrates—include a multitude of fascinating objects, from ancient clay figurines to contemporary Indian paintings, from all over the Americas.

Author : National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center
Publisher : National Museum of American Indian
ISBN 13 : 9781933565033
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Motivations written by National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center and published by National Museum of American Indian. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in 1989, the museum has added contemporary Native art and objects to its collections, across all genres. Indigenous Motivations highlights some of the most important, interesting, and amusing of these works, Brief, lively essays discuss why contemporary Native people continue to make art, and why museums collect it. It is the art itself, however, that steals the show. Never-before-published photographs convey the beauty and vitality of these newest treasures in the museum's marvelous collection.

Author : National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006154731X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infinity of Nations written by National Museum of the American Indian and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Museum of the American Indian is one of the world's great conservators of cultural heritage, and its collections hold more than 800,000 objects spanning 13,000 years of history of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, from Tierra del Fuego in the south to the Arctic in the north. Drawing on new insights from archaeology, history, and art history, Infinity of Nations uses culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant objects as a point of entry to understanding the people who created them. Following an introduction on the power of objects to engage our imagination, each chapter presents an overview of a region of the Americas and its cultural complexities, written by a noted specialist on that region. Community knowledge-keepers and an impressive new generation of Native scholars contribute highlights on objects that represent important ideas or that capture moments of social change. Together these writers create an extraordinary mosaic. What emerges is a portrait of a complex and dynamic world shaped from its earliest history by contact and exchange among peoples. Illustrated with more than 200 strikingly beautiful photographs published here for the first time, Infinity of Nations opens new avenues that extend well beyond those of conventional cultural studies. Authoritative and accessible, here is an important resource for anyone interested in learning about Native cultures of the Americas.

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Download or read book National Museum of the American Indian written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Regina Krahl
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343057
Total Pages : 323 pages
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Download or read book Shipwrecked written by Regina Krahl and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part adventure story, part maritime archaeological expedition, part historical look into ninth-century Chinese economy, culture, and trade, Shipwrecked is a fascinating journey back in time. Twelve centuries ago, a merchant ship—an Arab dhow—foundered on a reef just off the coast of Belitung, a small island in the Java Sea. The cargo was a remarkable assemblage of lead ingots, bronze mirrors, spice-filled jars, intricately worked vessels of silver and gold, and more than 60,000 glazed bowls, ewers, and other ceramics. The ship remained buried at sea for more than a millennium, its contents protected from erosion by their packing and the conditions of the silty sea floor. Shipwrecked explores this precious cargo and the story of the men who sailed it, with more than 250 gorgeous photographs and essays by international experts in Arab ship-building methods, pan-Asian maritime trade, ceramics, precious metalwork, and more.

Author : Edwards Park
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780517119556
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Treasures of the Smithsonian written by Edwards Park and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the masterpieces of art, history, invention, and nature selected from the Smithsonian exhibition.

Author : James Volkert
Publisher : Scala Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. written by James Volkert and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Museum of the American Indian, the newest addition to the Smithsonian Institution's most

Author : Lindsay M. Montgomery
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 160732993X
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book Objects of Survivance written by Lindsay M. Montgomery and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1893 and 1903, Jesse H. Bratley worked in Indian schools across five reservations in the American West. As a teacher Bratley was charged with forcibly assimilating Native Americans through education. Although tasked with eradicating their culture, Bratley became entranced by it—collecting artifacts and taking glass plate photographs to document the Native America he encountered. Today, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Jesse H. Bratley Collection consists of nearly 500 photographs and 1,000 pottery and basketry pieces, beadwork, weapons, toys, musical instruments, and other objects traced to the S’Klallam, Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Havasupai, Hopi, and Seminole peoples. This visual and material archive serves as a lens through which to view a key moment in US history—when Native Americans were sequestered onto reservation lands, forced into unfamiliar labor economies, and attacked for their religious practices. Education, the government hoped, would be the final tool to permanently transform Indigenous bodies through moral instruction in Western dress, foodways, and living habits. Yet Lindsay Montgomery and Chip Colwell posit that Bratley’s collection constitutes “objects of survivance”—things and images that testify not to destruction and loss but to resistance and survival. Interwoven with documents and interviews, Objects of Survivance illuminates how the US government sought to control Native Americans and how Indigenous peoples endured in the face of such oppression. Rejecting the narrative that such objects preserve dying Native cultures, Objects of Survivance reframes the Bratley Collection, showing how tribal members have reconnected to these items, embracing them as part of their past and reclaiming them as part of their contemporary identities. This unique visual and material record of the early American Indian school experience and story of tribal perseverance will be of value to anyone interested in US history, Native American studies, and social justice. Co-published with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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Download or read book National Museum of the American Indian written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: