American Indian Art books collections

Building a library is an important aspect to a collection of any size. Finding reputable and comprehensive readings about your areas of interest are an important component of building a good knowledge base. However, not all books offer the same level of academic quality. We have compiled this list of widely trusted books on public and private American Indian Art collections to help assist you in your studies.

Grimmer and Cleary Antique Native American Art

Museum Exhibitions

North American Indian Art: Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands

American Indian Material Culture: The Ten Kate Collection, 1882-1888

A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag

Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind

Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the Pacific Northwest Coast

Frederick Weygold: Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians

Beauty Speaks for Us by Marshall, Lyon & Mackay

Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection

Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork

Little Chief’s gatherings: The Smithsonian Institution’s G.K. Warren 1855-1856 Plains Indian collection and the New York State Library’s 1855-1857 Warren Expeditions journals

Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art (Peabody Essex Museum)

Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life

Hau, Kola! The Plains Indian Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark’s Indian Collection

American Indian Art Hardcover – Norm Feder

Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum

A Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau

Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles (Studies in Anthropology and Material Culture, V. 7)

The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection: Selected Works

Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center)

Beaded Brilliance: Wearable Art from the Columbia River Plateau

Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection (The Western Legacies Series)

Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk’s Vision of the Lakota World

Beauty, Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts

Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, North American Showing 1977

Ledger Narratives: The Plains Indian Drawings in the Mark Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College (New Directions in Native American Studies series)

Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes

Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses

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

The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art

From the land of the totem poles: The Northwest Coast Indian art collection at the American Museum of Natural History

Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum Hardcover

The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky

Private Collections

Wearing the Moon: Navajo and Pueblo silver buttons || email the author at [email protected]

Spirits in the Art: From the Plains and Southwest Indian Cultures

Robes of Splendor: Native American Painted Buffalo Hides

Native American Horse Gear: A Golden Age of Equine-Inspired Art of the Nineteenth Century

Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Arts

Native Arts of the Columbia Plateau: The Doris Swayze Bounds Collection of Native American Artifacts

Native Americans: A Portrait : The Art and Travels of Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Bodmer

Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection

Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History

Art of the American Indian frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection

Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni

Memory and Vision: Arts, Cultures, and Lives of Plains Indian Peoples

Pleasing The Spirits: A Catalogue of a Collection of American Indian Art

Living with American Indian Art: The Hirschfield Collection

Gallery Collections

Summer 2017 catalogue

Amidon Ledger

Summer 2016 catalogue

The Path to beauty, 2016 moccasin exhibition catalogue