"A McLellan book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the formative years of Native American art history / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Franz Boas, John Swanton, and the new Haida sc ulpture at the American Museum of Natural History / Aldona Jonaitis -- New questions for "old things" : the Brooklyn Museum's Zuni collection / Diana Fane -- Louisa Keyser and the Cohns : mythmaking and basket mak ing in the American West / Marvin Cohodas -- "The artist himself" : the Salish basketry monograph and the beginnings of a Boasian paradigm / I ra Jacknis -- Lila Morris O'Neale : ethnoaesthetics and the Yurok-Karok basket weavers of northwestern California / Margot Blum Schevill -- Ma rketing the affinity of the primitive and the modern : René d'Harnonco urt and "Indian art of the United States" / W. Jackson Rushing.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation.