Name/Title
Identity by design : tradition, change, and celebration in Native women's dressesEntry/Object ID
E98.C8.I34 2007Description
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.Context
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.Lexicon
Search Terms
dresses--united states, indigenous peoples of north america--clothing, women's clothing--historyLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Emil Her Many HorsesEdition
FirstPublisher
Collins, National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)Date Published
2007ISBN
61153699, 9780061153693LCCN
2006049750Notes
Length: 160General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Portraits of native women and their dresses / Emil Her Many Horses -- Dresses, designers, and the dance of life / Colleen Cutschall -- The invisible dress / Elizabeth Woody -- Creativity and cosmopolitanism: women's enduring traditions / Janet Catherine Berlo.