The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting (McLellan Endowed)

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This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists museum curators dealers and collectors and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding appropriation and reappropriation which characterized their transactions. The essays examine major figures art forms institutions and events of the early years when Native American artworks were first collected studied and displayed.