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Spirit capture
Johnson, Tim, West, W. Richard, Jr.Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
Native Americans have been among the most popular subjects of photography since the invention of the medium more than 150 years ago. One of the most assiduous collectors of Native American objects and images was George Gustav Heye, whose vast collections now form the core of the holdings of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Spirit Capture brings together more than 200 of the most compelling images from the NMAI collection with essays from Native and non-Native historians, anthropologists, and curators. Whether depicting runaway Wyandot girls being returned to their boarding school, a Seminole woman sitting at a sewing machine, or a Yaqui man sporting a pair of bandoliers, the photographs in Spirit Capture attest to the adaptive strength of Native Americans in the face of more than a century of profound economic, political, social, and spiritual change.Editorials
Library Journal
The photo archives of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian hold nearly 90,000 images, from daguerrotypes to color slides. This book...provides excellent reproductions of more than 200 of them. The complexity of how Indians of the Western hemisphere were documented and depicted is not lost on the Native American essayists whose perceptive analyses accompany the photos. For instance, Tim Johnson (Mohawk) draws a parallel between developments in photography and events in the lives of Indians. The photographs selected for this book show a greater range of images and contexts than previously published. -- Kathleen Collins, Bank of America Archives, San FranciscoAlan Tack
We are...offered [here] a perspective on Native exereience that no tour guide could offer, that no unaided view of the landscape could provide. -- Native PeoplesBook Details
Published
October 31, 1998
Publisher
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, c1998.
Pages
205
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781560987659