An edition of Trading Identities (1998)

Trading Identities

The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900

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An edition of Trading Identities (1998)

Trading Identities

The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900

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This book examines a range of art forms produced by Indians in northeastern North America for sale to travelers and tourists during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Aboriginal peoples of the Woodlands were the first in North America to experience economic and social marginalization and, in consequence, the first to rely on the production of commodities for the tourist trade.

These hybrid art forms combine indigenous materials and techniques such as quillwork, moosehair embroidery, birchbark, and basketry with Euro-American genres and styles. Tourist art of the period is generally of high quality and great aesthetic interest. Yet scholars have largely ignored these objects because of their incorporation of Euro-North American influences.

An innovative combination of fieldwork, art historical analysis, and historical contextualization, this study for the first time rigorously compares a Native souvenir production to a wide range of Euro-American decorative arts and home crafts. It identifies the sources of object types and styles and reveals the innovative differences displayed by Aboriginal trade wares.

Images newly uncovered in archives and travel literature - including depictions of Native vendors and makers - illustrate the book, along with never before displayed or published objects from museum collections in Europe and North America.

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English
Pages
334

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Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900
January 1, 1999, Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
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Cover of: Trading Identities
Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900
February 1999, University of Washington Press
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Cover of: Trading Identities
Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900
September 1999, Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Paperback in English
Cover of: Trading identities
Trading identities: the souvenir in Native North American art from the Northeast, 1700-1900
1998, University of Washington Press, McGill-Queen's University Press
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Paperback
Number of pages
334
Dimensions
9.5 x 7.6 x 1.1 inches
Weight
2.8 pounds

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OL9899527M
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0295976489
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9780295976488
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