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Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions

Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions

Berlo, Janet Catherine
Horse Capture, Joe

Hardcover

Indigenous Art of the AmericasIndigenous Studies

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ISBN10: 0295751363
ISBN13: 9780295751368
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Sep 26 2023
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

Explores the making and meaning of so-called Native American art

The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to Chumash sculpture was rampant. Through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, Janet Catherine Berlo engages with troubling and sometimes confusing categories of inauthenticity.

Based on decades of research as well as interviews with curators, collectors, restorers, replica makers, reenactors, and Native artists and cultural specialists, Not Native American Art examines the historical and social contexts within which people make replicas and fakes or even invent new objects that then become traditional. Berlo follows the unexpected trajectories of such objects, including Northwest Coast carvings, Navajo rugs made in Mexico, Zuni mask replicas, Lakota-style quillwork, and Mimbres bowl forgeries. With engaging anecdotes, the book offers a rich and nuanced understanding of a surprisingly wide range of practices that makers have used to produce objects that are not Native American art.

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