Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900

by Ruth B. Phillips

Book Overview

This book examines a range of art forms produced by Indians in northeastern North America for sale to travelers and tourists during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Aboriginal peoples of the Woodlands were the first in North America to experience economic and social marginalization and, in consequence, the first to rely on the production of commodities for the tourist trade. These hybrid art forms combine indigenous materials and techniques...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295976489
• ISBN13: 9780295976488
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.5"