AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE - AUTUMN 2000 [SOLD]

AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE - AUTUMN 2000

Mary G. Hamilton, Publisher

Articles of Interest

ZUNI FETISHES: ART AND CHANGE by Jim Ostler

Suggests that contemporary Zuni fetish carving has undergone an artistic revolution in the past two decades and that by working outside the boundaries of traditional aesthetics, carvers have developed a way to express their creativity without clear grounds for criticism.

SOUTHEASTERN INDIAN BASKETRY IN THE GILCREASE MUSEUM COLLECTION by Jason Baird Jackson

Presents an overview of the Southeastern baskets in the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  This article outlines all of the major Southeastern basketry types, including those not represented in the Gilcrease Museum’s collection.

ALBERT LUJAN: ENTREPRENEURIAL PUEBLO PAINTER OF TOURIST ART (1892-1948) by Bradley F. Taylor

Presents an overview of the life and artwork of Albert Lujan (1892-1948), a Taos Pueblo painter who worked in a three-dimensional Euro-American style while focusing his work on village themes that would appeal to the tourist market.

NORTHWEST COAST SILVER BRACELETS AND THE USE OF EURO-AMERICAN DESIGNS by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

Sometime between the 1830s and the 1860s, Northwest Coast silver bracelets became popular among Native Americans and Euro-Americans alike.  Not only are they important to native traditions—often displaying inherited crests and given as gifts at potlatches—they are also one of the most enduring and widely collected Northwest Coast art forms.