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Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art
Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art Author:Norman Feder Here is a splendid, concise introduction to the creative achievement of the peoples who inhabited North America during the two centuries when Europeans were exploring and settling their lands and irrevocably altering the their way of life. The author, an authority on North American Indian art presents little-known masterpieces of sculpture and p... more »ainting from every ehtnographic area, ranging in seize from delicately carved pipes and combs to the huge house posts of the Delaware tribe and in sensibility from charming carved-animal spindle whorls to the eerie and impressive Iroquois and Northwest coast masks. He triumphantly controvert the widely held belief that American Indians virtually stopped creating works of significance after white contact, proving, on the contrary, that in many instances the impact of European materials and the stimulus of European trade encouraged a flowering of tribal arts.« less