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Art and religion are two words that have no equivalents in languages spoken by Native Americans. Yet these intensely spiritual people created objects for everyday use that are unsurpassed for sheer beauty, originality, and craftsmanship. The Spirit of Native America explains this apparent contradiction in language as rich in symbolism as the art itself. Stunning full-color photography augments the text, yielding a new perspective on this often misunderstood facet of Native American culture.
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Fine photographs of more than 250 items, part of the David T. Vernon collection of native American artifacts on display at the Grand Teton National Park. These artifacts from a variety of Indian tribes include whistles, rattles, headdresses, religious articles, baskets, clothing, and tools. Walters, in a well-written text, points out that to the people who created these objects, art and beauty were inseparable from everyday living. A moving and informative work. Notes, bibliography; index. --Julie Mueller
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This catalog of the David T. Vernon Collection at Grand Teton National Park portrays and discusses about 150 objects from American Indian peoples: clothing and jewelry; utilitarian, sacred, and ceremonial objects; and items of warfare, including weapons. Within each chapter the objects span many of the culture areas of North America. Each chapter contains a very brief essay that explains in the most general terms the types of contexts in which the objects were used. An essay by Walters, a Native American of Pawnee and Otoe-Missouria descent, describes the ephemeral quality of traditional life and the powerful character of Indian spiritualism. This essay is more evocative than informative (very little detail is provided about how or why Indians did things as they did or believe as they do). Walters attempts to recreate some of the religious visions that are an essential element of Indian belief. The book is overdesigned: numerous full-color landscapes are unrelated to the text or the artifacts; tiny lines and graphic patterns frame the text; yet the objects are arranged on the page as if displayed in an old museum, with tiny catalog numbers that refer to endnotes. Many pages include more than a dozen images peppered across a lot of white space. This book will interest visitors to the collection but will be of much less use to those wishing to understand American Indian culture in depth. C. D. Roy University of Iowa