ISBN:

• 9780872731660
• 9780295990774
• 0872731669
• 0295990775

Description: xiv, 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm

Notes:

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tipi : Heritage of the Great Plains, organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn Museum, Feb. 18-May 15, 2011; Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, Jun. 17-Sep. 11, 2011; Minnesota History Center, spring 2012"--T.p. verso
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Map of the Great Plains
• The tipi : heritage of the Great Plains / Nancy B. Rosoff
• pt. 1. The quintessential American architectural form
• The art of tipi living / Emma I. Hansen
• The Arapaho tipi / Dennis Sun Rhodes
• Ashtáahile (Crow tipis) / Heywood and Mary Lou Big Day
• The rain-in-the-face tipi liner / Susan Kennedy Zeller
• A modern Cheyenne-Arapaho tipi liner / Harvey Pratt
• Of tipis and stereotypes / Bently Spang
• pt. 2. The center of family life
• "To honor her kindred" : women's arts centered in the tipi / Barbara A. Hail
• Kiowa beadwork in the twenty-first century / Teri Greeves
• Tipis and the warrior tradition / Daniel C. Swan and Michael P. Jordan
• The tipi of the Kiowa Tonkongya (Black Leggings Warrior Society) / Dixon Palmer and Lyndreth Palmer
• Growing up on the Plains / Christina E. Burke

LCCN: 2010022208

Control Number: 797802

Subjects:

• Great Plains -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.
• Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Dwellings -- Great Plains -- Exhibitions.
• Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Great Plains -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.
• Tipis -- Great Plains -- Exhibitions.

Genre: Exhibition catalogs.

Other Authors:

• Brooklyn Museum.
• Kennedy Zeller, Susan.
• Rosoff, Nancy B.