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(Many Paths) |
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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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February 21, 2004 - Issue 107 |
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Beauty, Honor, and Tradition\The Legacy of the Plains Indian Shirts |
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credits: Plains
Indian tribes lived a nomadic lifestyle, following the great animal
that they depended on most, the buffalo. Tribal territories often
shifted throughout their history, depending on the available resources.
This map illustrates the general location of Plains Indian tribes
in the 1860s.
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The exhibition, "Beauty, Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts", explores the importance of these garments to traditional Plains Indian culture from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with tribal elders and archival research, this exhibition demonstrates how these objects fit into the Plains Indian world. In a rare curatorial collaboration between the National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian Institution and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Beauty, Honor, and Tradition" features forty-three Plains Indian shirts created by twenty-two tribes, all drawn from the one million object collection of the National Museum of the American Indian. Beauty,
Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts Lecturer: George P. Horse Capture On the opening day of the exhibition, "Beauty, Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts," George Horse Capture (A'aninin), National Museum of the American Indian's deputy assistant director of cultural resources, will discuss the exhibition. Featuring forty-four powerful Plains Indian shirts, the show explores the beauty, power, history, iconography, construction, and materials of Plains Indian shirts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In nineteenth-century communities from southern Canada to northern Texas, these shirts were made to honor warriors and tribal leaders, and to adorn spiritual leaders. George P. Horse Capture curated the exhibition with his son, Joe D. Horse Capture, Associate Curator of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. |
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images of Native Americans are as iconic as that of a historic
Plains Indian man wearing a fringed shirt, riding across the prairie
on his trusty horse. This stereotypical image, etched into the
minds of people across this country and Europe, and has been the
object of many romanticized novels and television. Fortunately,
that image is only one insignificant interpretation of the role
of Plains Indian shirts; in reality, they act as a symbol of status,
honor, and tradition for Plains Indian culture. |
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