Discusses how Oscar Howe has created a liner abstract design concept that utilizes the formal elements of line, color and space to bridge the gap between traditional Indian values and the world of contemporary art.
Website makes accessible 570 objects, 2600 written documents, 500 black and white photographs and 8 sound recordings from the Shotridge collection featuring southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 137-188
Description
Book reviews of:
America’s Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900 by Ruth Spack.
Anthropologists and Indians in the New South edited by Rachel A. Bonney and J.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge
An Introductory Study of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians by Walter Edmund Roth
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 75, no. 2, The People of Eight Seasons: The Sámi and Their Changing Culture, Summer, 2003, pp. 181-200
Description
Looks at Nickula's portrayal of the Skolt people in The Skolt Lapp Community Suenjelsijd During the Year 1938 and Lappish Nation and Alariesto's art which depicted Lapland.