Word: beadwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is taught at the reservation school, and she says that they teach the Indian language. Then she adds, with a slightly embarassed giggle, "And they have night classes in beadwork, and...intermediate beadwork, and advanced beadwork...
...curious fact that even in America, the masks, totems, clothes, paintings and beadwork of the 57 Indian tribes represented in this show were the last forms of "primitive" art to win general esteem outside their own tribal context. Only ethnologists were interested. The red man's images scarcely influenced white culture-unlike African art, whose impact on early 20th century painting was fundamental. Max Ernst collected kachina dolls, and Jackson Pollock, it is said, was interested in Navajo sand paintings; but as a rule, whether it was treated as knickknacks or, more decently, as ethnographical evidence, Indian...