Not Native American Art
Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions
- 360 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Joe D. Horse Capture
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Of “Santa Fakes” and Other Illusions
- 1. Authenticity and Its Discontents: What Is “Real” Native American Art?
- 2. Cultural Cross-Dressers: A Long History of Imitating Indians
- 3. Replication and Reproduction on the Great Plains of Nostalgia
- 4. The Deliberate Forgery, the Accidental Fake, the Visual Fiction, and the Replica
- 5. Cross-Cultural Replication and Native Revitalization: Techniques of Remembering
- Conclusion: Vexed Identities and the “Destruction of Mimicry” in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index