Native American Saddlery and Trappings: A History in Paper Dolls

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Illustrating the variety and great thing about Native American horse tack and gear, Jaye Oliver traces their evolution from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Drawing upon objects from North American museum and historical society collections, Oliver’s lush, full-color paintings sample equine finery of the quite a lot of tribes of the North American Southwest, Plateau, and Great Plains. Including a historical narrative and illustrated thesaurus, in addition to curatorial descriptions of every object portrayed, this work is as instructive as it’s breathtaking.Including pictorial instructions for assembling the tack and gear, this work is for college kids, collectors, and aficionados of every age, offering an unprecedented survey of the next collections: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming; Denver Art Museum; Glenbow Museum, Alberta, Canada; Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University; Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico; Montana Historical Society; Minnesota Historical Society; State Historical Society of North Dakota; Nez Percé National Historical Park, National Park Service; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History/Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; School of American Research, Santa Fe.
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