Studies in American Indian Art : A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder

by Feder, Norman; Feest, Christian F.; Feest, Christian F.

• ISBN13: 9783000058714
• ISBN10: 3000058710
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

Like few of his contemporaries, Norman Feder helped shape the study of American Indian art. In a career spanning four decades as hobbyist craftsman, author, curator, and editor, Feder contributed to the theoretical and methodological foundation of a discipline about to emerge from the narrow interests of museum anthropologists and devoted amateurs into public prominence and widespread appreciation.Feder entered the field without the benefit of academic training, but with a profound firsthand knowledge of the importance of techniques for an understanding of Native American visual forms of expression. Among his lasting contributions is the explicit recognition of the historical nature of these art forms, of the resulting significance of documented collections and information contained in early drawings and photographs for a placement of artefact styles in time and space, and of the usefulness of studies of artefact types or genres in Native American art.In this volume a group of American, Canadian, and European anthropologists, art historians, and collectors explore topics relating to Feder's far-ranging interests in Native American art and shed light on his background and achievements. Essays by Arthur C. Einhorn, Joyce Herold, Tilly Laskey, Roanne P. Goldfein, Christian F. Feest, Steven C. Brown, Colin F. Taylor, Bill Holm, Arni Brownstone, Imre Nagy, Molly Lee, Marvin Cohodas, Ruth B. Phillips, Sally McLendon, William C. Sturtevant, and Sylvia S. Kasprycki deal with works from different regions, time periods, and traditional forms of expression of Native North America.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Norman Feder as Hobbyist, Cultural Scientist, and Social Mover	p. 2
Norman Feder's Double Standard: Case Studies in Critical Examination of Objects	p. 4
Norman Feder at the Denver Art Museum: A Chronology, 1958-1973	p. 16
Norman Feder and American Indian Art Magazine, 1977-1995	p. 23
Norman Feder and American Indian Art Studies	p. 26
Norman Feder: A Bibliography	p. 30
Norman Feder and the Central Coast Salish Art Style	p. 33
The Crow Ceremonial Shirt: History and Development of Styles, 1800-1900	p. 42
Quill-Wrapped Horsehair: Two Rare Quilling Techniques	p. 53
Seven War-Exploit Paintings: A Search for Their Origins	p. 69
The Cosmic Turtle: A Unique Representation of Cheyenne Cosmological Beliefs	p. 86
A Piece of the Past: Alaskan Eskimo Art and the Nome Gold Rush, 1895-1915	p. 96
Reading Pictorial Imagery in Washoe Basketry	p. 107
Quilled Bark from the Central Great Lakes: A Transcultural History	p. 118
California Feather Blankets: Objects of Wealth and Status in Two Nineteenth-Century Worlds	p. 132
Documenting the Speyer Collection	p. 162
Comparative Evidence, Critical Reasoning, and the Identification of Styles: A (Knife)Case in Point	p. 187
Index	p. 205
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