Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the formative years of Native American art history / Janet Catherine Berlo
  • Franz Boas, John Swanton, and the new Haida sculpture 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 making in the American West / Marvin Cohodas
  • "The artist himself" : the Salish basketry monograph and the beginnings of a Boasian paradigm / Ira Jacknis
  • Lila Morris O'Neale : ethnoaesthetics and the Yurok-Karok basket weavers of northwestern California / Margot Blum Schevill
  • Marketing the affinity of the primitive and the modern : René d'Harnoncourt and "Indian art of the United States" / W. Jackson Rushing.