In the Spirit of John C. Ewers ...
THE PEOPLE
OF THE BUFFALO
The Plains Indians of North America, Military Art, Warfare and Change Studies in
Honour
of John C. Ewers
Co-ordinated
and Edited by the late Dr. Colin F. Taylor and Hugh A. Dempsey
This Festschrift will be produced in two volumes, the first has been published, the second was scheduled for publication in November 2004 but the untimely death of Colin Taylor delayed publication which will now be April 2005. Each volume is produced in A4 format, Volume 1 is 184 pages, heavily illustrated with many in colour. Volume 2 is 254 pages with 160 Black and White and Colour illustrations. Both are soft bound.
The contents of Volume
1
are as follows:
| John C. Ewers | Military Art of the Plains Indians |
| Hugh Dempsey | Between Friends: Forty-five years of Correspondence from Blackfeet Country |
| Kingsley M. Bray | Omaha Rendezvous: Ethnogenesis and Warfare at a Plains Indian Trade Centre |
| Barbara Feezor Buttes | Reading the Medicine Flowers: Mdewakanton Women and the Art of Survival |
| Winfield Coleman | Feeding Skalps to Thunder: Shamanic Symbolism in the Art of the Cheyenne Berdache |
| Raymond D Mallie & Douglas R. Parks | Plains Indian Warfare |
| David F. Halaas & Andrew E. Masich | The Cheyenne Dog Soldier Ledger Book: The Rope that Ties Memory to Truth |
| George P. Horse Capture | The Blackfeet Willow Horse |
| Ake Hultkrantz & Christer Lindberg | The Last Battles between Blackfeet and Shoshone: As Remembered by Shoshone and Trappers |
| Carlin Marlouf | The Native American, Bear-in-the-Water (Hidatsa Warrior) |
| Castle McLaughlin | Lewis and Clark’s Mandan Robe: The Known and the Unknown |
| Joseph Medicine Crow | Counting Coup and Capturing Horses (1920-1940) |
| Imre Nagy | Insights into Cheyenne Heraldry: Shields of an Eighteenth-Century Cheyenne Visionary |
| Paul Raczka | Ohkiniksi: War Medicines of the Northwest Plains |
Volume 2: The Silent Memorials: Artefacts as Culture and Historical Documents - Essays in Honour of John C. Ewers
The contents include:
| D.Halaas/A.Maich | Colin Taylor Obituary |
| Colin F. Taylor | Foreword: Studying the North American Plains Indian |
| William R. Swaggerty | Indian Trade Blankets: History and Symbolism of a Unique North American Tradition |
| Carolyn Corey |
Coveted Stripes: The History and Use of Trade Cloth by the Plains Indians, c. 1800-1900 |
| James Hanson |
When the Beads Changed |
| Ted Brasser |
The Wanderings of an Artist: Paul Kane Unmasked |
| John C. Ewers |
Sacred Silhouettes: Rawhide Effigies of the Plains Indians |
| Arni Brownstone |
Bear Chief’s War Deed Tipi |
| Candace S. Green |
Fort Marion and the Florida Boys, Rethinking the Named Indian Artist |
| John Painter |
Moths and Plains Indian: Their Fascinating Connection |
| Michael Johnson |
Wanata’s Costume in Edinburgh: An Early Example of Yanktonai Sioux Ceremonial Costume |
| Allen Chronister |
Berlandiers Comanche Game Bag, Revisited |
| Colin F. Taylor |
Woven Quillwork: Distribution and Style |
| Joyce Herold |
Lakota Horse Masks |
| Mary A. Helland |
Picking up Ewers’ Trail, Fort Peck Reservation Assiniboines |
| James L. Dempsey |
Blackfeet Painted Panels of Glacier National Park |
| Paula Fleming |
Photographing the Plains Indian: Ridgeway glover at Forts Laramie and Phil Kearny 1866 |
| Joanna Scherer & Vicki Simon |
Red Cloud’s Manikin and His Uncle’s Shirt; Historical Representation in the Museum as Seen through Photo Analysis |
| George P. Horse Capture | From Reservation to Museum: The Travels of a Native American Ethnographer |
| Fraser J. Pakes | Dentallium and Plains Aesthetics |
| plus others .... |
Price of Volume 1
UK Members of English Westerners' Society £21.00 and US members $42.00.
Non-Members £23.50.
Price of Volume 2 is more due to its size and additional cost of posting
UK Members of English Westerners' Society £22.50 and US members $45.00.
Non-Members £25.00.
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