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Art of the Great Lakes Indians

Charles E. Cleland

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Description:Art of the Great Lakes Indians focuses attention on the art of the dozen or more Woodland Indian tribes - the Chippewa (Ojibway), Huron, Illini, Iroquois, Kickapoo, Menomini, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox, Eastern Sioux (Santee) and Winnebago, who found the beautiful region surrounding the world's largest lakes an ideal home. Increasingly the Indian peoples of North America are making us aware of the identity and culture. Some of the Great Lakes tribes are larger than when the first French explorers entered the region; others have almost vanished, or were forced to move in earlier periods west of the Mississippi (Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, etc.) - where many of them now love. (One band of Kickapoo emigrated to Mexico.) The exhibition traces the art of the Great Lakes tribes after the period of contact into the early 20th century. Prehistoric and contemporary Indian art are not included. Too often the culture of the American Indian has been overshadowed by the white man's history of conquest, the Hollywood stereotype of the red man, or by ignorance and indifference. To be reminded of the unique locale of the Great Lakes is helpful. Here the dozen or more tribes lived in a sublime primeval forest with an abundance of pure water, ideal hunting grounds, and a balanced ecology (which they respected), and produced an art clearly inspired by the rich resources which nature provided. The wonder of American Indian art of this region is its ingenuity in the use of of material at hand - the inventive and practical use of birchbark, deerskin, porcupine and bird quills, moosehair, furs, feathers, bearclaws, wood, reed, burl, shell, sweet grass, catlinite, natural dyes, etc. Because of their semi-nomadic existence, their art became primarily an applied art, decoration for clothing, tools, household objects. We owe much to the few who dedicated their lives in locating and rescuing much of the material from oblivion. Full of black and white and color photos, and techniquesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Art of the Great Lakes Indians. To get started finding Art of the Great Lakes Indians, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 114

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Flint Institute of Arts

Release: 1973

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Description: Art of the Great Lakes Indians focuses attention on the art of the dozen or more Woodland Indian tribes - the Chippewa (Ojibway), Huron, Illini, Iroquois, Kickapoo, Menomini, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox, Eastern Sioux (Santee) and Winnebago, who found the beautiful region surrounding the world's largest lakes an ideal home. Increasingly the Indian peoples of North America are making us aware of the identity and culture. Some of the Great Lakes tribes are larger than when the first French explorers entered the region; others have almost vanished, or were forced to move in earlier periods west of the Mississippi (Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, etc.) - where many of them now love. (One band of Kickapoo emigrated to Mexico.) The exhibition traces the art of the Great Lakes tribes after the period of contact into the early 20th century. Prehistoric and contemporary Indian art are not included. Too often the culture of the American Indian has been overshadowed by the white man's history of conquest, the Hollywood stereotype of the red man, or by ignorance and indifference. To be reminded of the unique locale of the Great Lakes is helpful. Here the dozen or more tribes lived in a sublime primeval forest with an abundance of pure water, ideal hunting grounds, and a balanced ecology (which they respected), and produced an art clearly inspired by the rich resources which nature provided. The wonder of American Indian art of this region is its ingenuity in the use of of material at hand - the inventive and practical use of birchbark, deerskin, porcupine and bird quills, moosehair, furs, feathers, bearclaws, wood, reed, burl, shell, sweet grass, catlinite, natural dyes, etc. Because of their semi-nomadic existence, their art became primarily an applied art, decoration for clothing, tools, household objects. We owe much to the few who dedicated their lives in locating and rescuing much of the material from oblivion. Full of black and white and color photos, and techniquesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Art of the Great Lakes Indians. To get started finding Art of the Great Lakes Indians, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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