Preface

1. Introduction: The Formative Years of Native American Art History

2. Franz Boas, John Swanton, and the New Haida Sculpture at the American Museum of Natural History

3. New Questions for 'Old Things': The Brooklyn Museum's Zuni Collection

4. Louisa Keyser and the Cohns: Mythmaking and Basket Making in the American West

5. 'The Artist Himself': The Salish Basketry Monograph and the Beginnings of a Boasian Paradigm

6. Lila Morris O'Neale: Ethnoaesthetics and the Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers of Northwestern California

7. Marketing the Affinity of the Primitive and the Modern: Rene d'Harnoncourt and 'Indian Art of the United States' Contributors

Index