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LET’S TALK

If we stop to consider the popularity of Native American portrayals and the frequent sales of Indian-style goods in living history circles, it seems odd that Indian arts and crafts legislation has not been a hot topic in current living history dialog.  Whether we talk about it or not, the actions of Congress and other lawmakers do affect various facets of this hobby we love so much.  Public Law 101-644 and similar pieces of legislation have potentially weighty implications for anyone in living history who has chosen a Native American portrayal and/or who markets it.  These are considerations as important to crafters of Indian-style goods as firearms legislation is to black powder shooters.  I sincerely hope readers will use this article as a jump-off point in further research and discussion of this topic. 

Reproduced from "Recreating History", 2 (5) 8, Nov. 1996, pp. 10-15, with the written consent of Author, Susan Jennys.

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SUGGESTED READING

Angst, Walter: “Collector Versus New Antiques” Curator 21 (4), 1978.

Belitz, Larry: “Replication of Native American Craftwork” Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, September 13-15, 1990, Friends of Fort Union Trading Post, Williston, ND; 1994.

Cembalest, R.: “What’s In A Name” Art News: 90, Sept. 1991, p. 36.

Champagne, Duane: “The Native North American Almanac,” Gale Research, Inc. Washington D.C.; 1994.

Cunningham, Bill: “Rendezvous: Back To A Simpler Time,” Gibbs-Smith Publishers, 1995.

Edwards, Richard W., Jr.: “Plains Indian Art Reproductions: The Law,” Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY; 1993.

Ekholm, Gordon T.: “The Problems of Fakes in Pre-Columbian Art,” Curator: 7(1), 1964, pp. 19-32.

Ewers, John C.: “A Century of Plains Indian Art Studies,” American Indian Art Magazine: 17(4), 1992, pp. 36-47.

Feest, Christian F.: “Europe’s Indians,” Society: 27, May/June 1990, pp. 46-51.

Freed, Stanley A.: “Research Pitfalls as a Result of the Restoration of Museum Specimens,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: 376, Dec. 1981, pp. 229-246.

Herbst, Toby: “The Forgery of Native American Art and Its Detection” Artifacts/Artifakes: The Proceedings of the 1984 Plains Indian Seminar, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY., 1992.

 

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