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Identity by design : tradition, change, and celebration in Native women's dresses / edited by Emil Her Many Horses.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Collins in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 160 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0061153699
  • 9780061153693
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Contents:
Portraits of native women and their dresses / Emil Her Many Horses -- Dresses, designers, and the dance of life / Colleen Cutschall -- Invisible dress / Elizabeth Woody -- Creativity and cosmopolitanism: women's enduring traditions / Janet Catherine Berlo.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 746.9208997 I19 Available 33111005506379
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This beautiful book presents a fascinating array of complete women's and girls' outfits dating from the 1830s to the present, including dresses, shawls, shoes, belts, bags, fans, and hair accessories. Also included is historical and contemporary background information on Native life and Native women and their dress. To accompany a major exhibit of the same name at the NMAI in March 2007.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses, opening at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., in spring 2007"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Portraits of native women and their dresses / Emil Her Many Horses -- Dresses, designers, and the dance of life / Colleen Cutschall -- Invisible dress / Elizabeth Woody -- Creativity and cosmopolitanism: women's enduring traditions / Janet Catherine Berlo.

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