[Review of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt and james G. E. Smith, eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas

Authors

Gretchen M. Bataille

Orginal Publication Date

1983

Journal Title

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Volume

3

Issue

ess/vol3/iss1

First Page

40

Last Page

41

Abstract

The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas is an illustrated catalog produced for a 1979 exhibition of the Museum of the American Indian which had as its purpose the exploration of the interrelationships between the arts and the cultures which produce them. This catlog [catalog] is refreshing in its thoroughness and in the way the artwork is integrated with the text. Exhibition catalogs often begin with a scholarly introduction and follow with hundreds of photographs of museum pieces only briefly identified. By contrast, The Ancestors begins with a series of color plates and follows with seven specific chapters on the divisions of the exhibition: the Painter, the Feather-worker, the Carver, the Goldsmith, the Basketmaker, the Weaver, and the Potter.

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1983