William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor. Includes 1 p. errata sheet. Covers the cultures, histories, and languages of the non-pueblo, or Circum-Pueblo, people of the Southwest and those on the northern fringe of Mesoamerica. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162.

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 10: Southwest

History

Americas

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History about Arctic North America. From the Tribal Territories; Eskimo and the Aleut Languages; West Artic; Candian Artic; Greenland and much more

Handbook of North American Indians: 005

S/N 047-000-00398-9

Reference

Environment, Origins, and Population covers the natural environment of the continent to which Indian cultures adapted in prehistoric and historic times, natural resources utilized by these cultures, current knowledge of the earliest Indian occupation (before 9,000 B.C.), and the human biology of Indian and Eskimo populations, prehistoric, historic, and modern. There are 73 chapters written by 96 scholars from leading academic institutions and research firms. The volume is heavily referenced with a bibliography of 9,600 entries and a detailed index.

Handbook Of North American Indians: Environment, Origins, and Population

For more than five decades of the twentieth century, one of the first American Indian professional photographers gave an insider’s view of his Oklahoma community—a community rooted in its traditional culture while also thoroughly modern and quintessentially American Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906–84) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people as they balanced age-old traditions with the influences of mainstream America. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects, Poolaw began making a visual history in the mid-1920s and continued for the next fifty years. When he sold his photos, he often stamped the reverse: “A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw, Anadarko, Okla.” Not simply by “an Indian,” but by a Kiowa man strongly rooted in his multi-tribal community, Poolaw’s work celebrates his subjects’ place in American life and preserves an insider’s perspective on a world few outsiders are familiar with—the Native America of the southern plains during the mid-twentieth century. For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw’s daughter Linda in 1989 at Stanford University and carried on by Native scholars Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) and Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

A focused investigation of Whistler’s watercolors that introduces readers to a rarely seen aspect of the artist’s creative output In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Whistler’s embrace of watercolor allowed the expatriate artist to present himself as an heir to the great Turner, while at the same time creating easily portable works that could supply an American market and, the artist hoped, help secure his art-historical legacy in his home country. Indeed, it was the American Gilded Age industrialist Charles Lang Freer who would amass the largest collection of Whistler’s watercolors, eventually bequeathing them to the Smithsonian in 1906.
This publication is the first systematic study of Freer’s amazing treasure trove of more than 50 watercolors by Whistler and includes figures, landscapes, nocturnes, and interiors. Providing both an art-historical context that looks into the contemporary reception of the works, as well as rigorous scientific analysis of Whistler’s materials and techniques, this volume offers a groundbreaking look into an overlooked segment of the celebrated artist’s oeuvre.

Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games

Glazer, Lee

Jacobson, Emily

McCarthy, Blythe

Roeder, Katherine

History & Criticism

Biology of Marine Mammals

Reynolds, J. & S. Rommel (eds.)

The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 devastated its capital region, killing 300,000, leaving over a million people homeless, and a nation in ruins. Haiti‘s museums, churches, art galleries, libraries, and archives were destroyed, damaged, or endangered. Troves of historical books and documents, treasured artistic works and architectural features, and artifacts of great cultural significance all were at risk of being lost forever. Haitians take great pride in their cultural heritage. It informs their identity as a people. That heritage grows out of their historic struggles for freedom; it gives them strength to persevere and survive; it provides the basis for creativity evident in a vibrant and robust living culture, and is an asset in the economic life of a nation. The Haiti Cultural Recovery Project sought to rescue, recover, safeguard, and help restore Haiti‘s cultural heritage in the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake. This book documents that effort. It

Saving Haiti's Heritage: Cultural Recovery After the Earthquake

Science & Math

Richard Kurin

Earth Sciences

Treasures From the Smithsonian Institution-2007 Calendar

Western views and eastern visions

Ostroff, Eugene

Irish silver

John Teahan

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