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Trading Identities: The Souvenir In Native North American Art From The Northeast, 17001900,Used
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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 Euroamerican 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 Euronorth American Influences.Throughout The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries The Production, Sale, And Consumption Of Tourist Art Constituted A System For The Circulation Of Objects Within Which Images Of Indianness Were Negotiated. To Produce Marketable Commodities, Aboriginal People Constructed Images Of Themselves That Mediated European Notions Of The Savage, The Natural, And The Primitive. By Accepting This Imagery, Colonizers And Settlers Naturalized Their Own Identities As The Rightful Successors To The 'Indians.' While Stereotypes Of Indianness Were Being Transported Into Parlors And Bedchambers, The Objects Made For Sale Were Also Influencing Things Aboriginal People Made For Their Own Use. The Beaded Purses, Pincushions, And Shopping Baskets Carried Euroamerican Styles And Concepts Into Aboriginal Communities, Together With Associated Ideas Of Gender Roles And Domestic Organization.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 Euroamerican 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 Literatureincluding Depictions Of Native Vendors And Makersillustrate The Book, Along With Never Before Displayed Or Published Objects From Museum Collections In Europe And North America.
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