Other editors include Christina Hellmich and Deana Dartt with Jill d'Alessandro. Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-415) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Dine/Navajo weaving -- Ancestral pottery from the American Southwest -- Historic pottery from the American Southwest -- Carvings and regalia from the Pacific Northwest -- Ndee/Apache and Yavapai baskets -- Hopi and Zuni carved figures -- Ledger drawings from the Great Plains -- Further thoughts. Exhibitions cited -- Deana Dartt -- Director's foreword / Thomas P. Campbell -- Thomas Weisel and Native American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / Jonathan Holstein -- Collecting across centuries: expanding the historic value of the Thomas W. Weisel family collection / Bruce Bernstein -- Navajo weaving and the persistence of Dine: story, history, and tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Navajo blankets / Anthony Berlant with Jerry Becker -- In the path of the ancestors: the dynamic art of Melissa Cody / Joyce Lovelace -- Distinguished provenance / Laurie D. Webster -- Dine/Navajo weaving: plates -- Pueblo pottery: a thousand years of ancestral designs and continuing traditions / Lyle Balenquah and April Sewequaptewa -- Spiritual ties / Les Namingha -- The Mimbres tradition of painted ceramics / Anthony Berlant and Evan M. Maurer -- Our journey into clay / Christopher Toya -- Ancestral pottery and the museum / Joseph R. Aguilar, Bruce Bernstein, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Arden Kucate, Christopher Toya, and Brian Vallo -- Ancestral pottery from the American Southwest : plates -- Request and relationship / Tessie Naranjo and Eliza Naranjo Morse -- The enduring beauty and values of historic Pueblo pottery / Bruce Bernstein -- A Zuni Pueblo potter's perspective on culturally sensitive tribal objects / Eileen Yatsattie -- Potters and conservators: an ongoing conversation / Landis Smith -- Historic pottery from the American Southwest: plates -- Northwest Coast art in the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection of Native American Art / Steven C. Brown -- Carving a totem pole for the Thomas W. Weisel family home / James Hart/7idansuu -- Holding knowledge across generations: the Weisel family Northwest Coast collections / Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi -- Traded realities: colonization, capitalism, and contemporary Indigenous art / Meghann O'Brien/Jaad Kuujus/Kwaxhi'laga -- Carvings and regalia from the Pacific Northwest: plates -- Western Apache and Yavapai coiled basketry / Diane Dittemore -- Southwest baskets / Bruce Bernstein and Deana Dartt -- Ndee/Apache basketry / Nicholas C. Laluk -- Ndee/Apache and Yavapai baskets: plates -- Hopitihu niq Hopitithu (Hopi katsina doll and Hopi katsina dolls) / Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa -- Hopi and Zuni carved representations of supernaturals / Zena Pearlstone -- Representations of Zuni deities: a community member's perspective / Arden Kucate -- Hopi and Zuni carved figures: plates -- A visual language / Dwayne Wilcox -- Great Plains art and social change: courtship in the Old White Woman ledger drawings / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Tapasinahikana: tellers of truth / Gerald McMaster -- Ledger drawings from the Great Plains: plates -- The power, privilege, and responsibility of collecting Native art / Deana Dartt -- Photo credits. Catalogue of the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection of Native American Art -- Exhibitions cited -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Photo credits.
Summary:
"Spanning nearly one thousand years of artistic creativity, Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection documents and celebrates a transformative gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The collection, developed by Thomas W. Weisel over the course of thirty years, is wide ranging and brings together artworks that embody exquisite aesthetics and rich cultural histories. While the majority of the collection is from the American Southwest--nineteenth-century Dine/Navajo weavings, Ancestral and historic Pueblo pottery, Hopi and Zuni carved figures, and Yavapai and Apache basketry--works from the Pacific Northwest and the Plains are also included. Building upon the Museums' first publication on the collection, Lines on the Horizon (2014), Native American Art is an expanded scholarly catalogue that includes all 206 works from the gift and features new research and specially commissioned essays and extended captions. Developed in collaboration with cultural advisors, the catalogue reflects the complex and multilayered nature of the works in the collection and, more broadly, the field of Native American art. Contributions by over eighty authors from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds--including scholars, culture bearers, artists, collectors, and museum professionals--illuminate details about the living histories of the works. The multitude of perspectives and voices offered here embraces the complexity of the dialogue surrounding Native works past and present, ensuring that Native American Art will be a cornerstone publication in the field of Native American art history." -- Provided by publisher.
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