This collection exhibited at the Aspen Art Museum, brings together over 100 examples of American Indian art represented by the tribes of the Plains and Woodlands, the Southwest and California, and Alaska and the Northwest Coast. A majority of these works have never been published.

This work proposes a bold new look at the art of the Americas by viewing it through its intersections and relationships with the world at large. Taking the vast geography and staggering cultural diversity of the North and South American continents as its starting point, the book introduces the ways in which American art, broadly defined, has been shaped both by its encounters with cultures around the globe and by its own past, from the ancient and...

The Northwest Coast Indian art collection of the American Museum of Natural History.--Title page.