University of
Oklahoma Libraries
Selected
Pre-Contact Native American Art Resources in
The Western
History Collections Library
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Bibliographies and Guides
Harding, Anne Dinsdale. Bibliography of Articles and Papers on
North American Indian Art. New
York: Kraus Reprint, 1969. Z 1209 .H26
1969.
Strecker, Matthias. Rock Art of East Mexico and Central
America: An Annotated Bibliography.
Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology, University of California,
1979. Z 1208 .M4 S77.
Handbooks and Directories
Handbook
of Middle American Indians. Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1964-76. F 1434 .H3. #
Handbook of North American
Indians. Washington: Smithsonian Institution: for
sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1978 - . E 77 .H25. #
Books
General
(see also individual subject
listings below)
Anawalt, Patricia Rieff. Indian Clothing before Cortes: Mesoamerican
Costumes from the Codices. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. F
1219.3 .C5 A5. #
Anthropological Papers of
the American Museum of Natural History. New York:
The Museum, 1907 - . GN 2 .A27. #
Anthropology, Memoirs. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1925 - . GN 4 .F5. #
Anton, Ferdinand, and
Frederick J. Dockstader. Pre-Columbian
Art and Later Indian Tribal Arts. New
York: H. N. Abrams, 1968. E 59 .A7 A5.
#
Brodzky, Anne Trueblood,
Rose Danesewich, and Nick Johnson, editors.
Stones, Bones and Skin: Ritual and Shamanic Art. Toronto: Society
for Art Publications, 1977. N 7260 .S76.
Coe, Ralph T. Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Year of
North American Indian Art: Nelson Gallery of Art – Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,
Kansas City, Missouri… Kansas City: The Gallery, 1977. E 98 .A7 C54 1977. $
Exposition of Indian Tribal
Arts, Inc. Introduction to American
Indian Art: To Accompany the First Exhibition of American Indian Art Selected
Entirely with Consideration of Esthetic Value. Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press; [distributed by MacRae’s Indian
Book Distributors, Santa Rosa, CA, 1970].
E 98 .A7 E95 1970.
Feest, Christian F. Native Arts of North America. New York: Oxford University Press,
1980. E 98 .A7 F44.
Giddings, J. Louis. Ancient Men of the Artic. New York: Knopf, 1967. E 99 .E7 G358. #
Grant, Campbell. Rock Art of the American Indian. New York: Crowell, 1967. E 98 .P6 G7.
Grieder, Terence. Origins of Pre-Columbian Art. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press,
1982. E 59 .A7 G74.
Hill, Beth. Indian Petroglyphs of the Pacific
Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975,
c1974. E 78 .N78 H47 1975.
Jernigan, E. W. Jewelry of the Prehistoric Southwest. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research,
1978. E 78 .S7 J45.
Kelemen, Pal. Medieval American Art; Masterpieces of
the New World before Columbus. New
York: Dover Publications, 1969. E 59
.A7 K4 1969. #
Land, L. K., editor. Pre-Columbian Art from the Land
Collection. San Francisco:
California Academy of Sciences and L. K. Land, 1979. E 59 .A7 P65.
Morrison, Tony. Pathways to the Gods: The Mystery of the
Andes Lines. New York: Harper &
Row, 1978. F 3429.1 .N3 M67 1978.
Pang, Hildegard
Delgado. Pre-Columbian Art:
Investigations and Insights. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. F
1219.3 .A7 P26 1992. #
Parsons, Lee Allen. Pre-Columbian Art: The Morton D. May and
the St. Louis Art Museum Collections. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
E 59 .A7 P33 1980.
Wade, Edwin L., editor. The Arts of the North American Indian:
Native Tradition in Evolution. New
York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986. E 98
.A7 A78 1986. #
Walker Art Center. American Indian Art: Form and Tradition. New York: Dutton, 1972. E 98 .A7 A442. # $
Westheim, Paul, and others. Prehispanic Mexican Art. New York: Putnam, 1972. F 1219.3 .A7 P7313.
Aztec
Pasztory, Esther. Aztec Art. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. F 1219.76 .A78 P37 1998. #
Stierlin,
Henri. Art of the Aztecs and Its
Origins. New York: Rizzoli,
1982. F1219.3 .A7 S853 1982.
Inca
Cobo, Bernabe. History of the Inca Empire: An Account of
the Indians’ Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca
Legends, History and Social Institutions.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979. F 3429 .C5813. # $
Maya
Andrews, George F. Maya Cities: Placemaking and
Urbanization. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1975. F 1435.3 .A6
A52. # ‡
Ferguson, William M. Maya Ruins in Central America in Color:
Tikal, Copan, and Quirigua. Albuquerque,
NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
F 1435 .F39 1984. #
Stierlin, Henri. Art of the Maya: from the Olmecs to the
Toltec-Maya. New York: Rizzoli,
1981. F 1435.3 .A S813 1981. $
Mound-Builders
Phillips, Philip. Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings: From the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum Press, 1978 - .
E 78 .O45 P44 1978 vol. 1. #
Shetrone, Henry Clyde. The Mound-Builders: A Reconstruction of the
Life of a Prehistoric American Race, through Exploration and Interpretation of
their Earth Mounds, their Burials, and their Cultural Remains. New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, 1930.
E 73 .S55. #
Silverberg, Robert. Mound Builders of Ancient America: The
Archaeology of a Myth. Greenwich,
Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1968.
E 73 .S57. #
Pottery
Brody, J. J. Mimbres Painted Pottery. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research,
1977. E 99 .M76 B76.
Brody, J. J. Mimbres Pottery. New York: Published by Hudson Hills Press in
association with the American Federation of Arts: Distributed in the U.S. by
Viking Penguin, 1983. E 99 .M76 B765
1983.
Hibben, Frank C. Kiva Art of the Anasazi at Pottery Mound.
Las Vegas, NV: K. C. Publications,
1975. E 99 .P9 H46. #
Kabotie, Fred. Designs from the Ancient Mimbrenos: With
a Hopi Interpretation. Flagstaff,
AZ: Northland Press, 1982. E 99 .M76 D47 1982.
#
Lister, Robert Hill and
Florence Cline Lister. Anasazi
Pottery: Ten Centuries of Prehistoric Ceramic Art in the Four Corners Country
of the Southwestern United States, as Illustrated by the Earl H. Morris
Memorial Pottery Collection in the University of Colorado Museum. Albuquerque: Published for the Maxwell Museum
of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, by the University of New Mexico
Press, 1978. E 99 .P9 L53 1978.
Nordenskiold, Gustaf. The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde,
Southwestern Colorado: Their Pottery
and Implements. New York: Published
by AMS Press for Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, 1973. E 78 .C6
N6713 1973.
Periodicals and Article Indexes
American Indian Art
Magazine. Scottsdale, Ariz.: American Indian Art,
Inc., 1977 - . E 98 .A7 A43, v. 1 -
. *
America: History and Life. (1964 - ) An online
bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from
prehistory to the present. Available to OU students, faculty, and staff via LORA (Library Online Resource Access) at http://libraries.ou.edu/eresources/LORA/ .
Art Index. An online bibliographic
database index to articles in over 300 art-related periodicals published
throughout the world from 1984 to the present. Available to OU students,
faculty, and staff via LORA (Library Online Resource Access) at http://libraries.ou.edu/eresources/LORA/ .
Historical Abstracts. (1954 - ) An online
reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding
the United States and Canada. Available to OU students, faculty, and staff via LORA (Library Online Resource Access) at http://libraries.ou.edu/eresources/LORA/ .
Web Resources
https://americanindian.si.edu/
National
Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Features images and
text concerning NMAI exhibits of Native American art.
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/01pots.htm
National
Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Images of pottery.
National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Images of pre-contact masks
created by arctic inhabitants.
The
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Education section provides brief, basic
information about the history of Native American arts.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3883/links.htm
http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/precolumbian.html https://www.pbs.org/show/nhptv-knowledge-network/ New
Hampshire Public Television Knowledge Network. Features links to information on
Hopi kachinas, pueblo pottery, Mayan art and more. http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources WWWVirtual
Library. American Indians: Index of
Native American Resources on the Internet.
This directory includes a link to “Art Related Sites”, a guide to online
exhibits featuring basketry, Inuit art, kachinas, and other topics. A
privately created page of “Native American Indian Resources” which features an
“Art Menu” offering information on beadwork, basketry, pottery, textiles, and
contemporary art. Back to Western History Collections
Library To Post-Contact Native American
Art Bibliography
Features many website links on Rock Art research, including Mesoamerican/Precolumbian
rock art.
The website of the Worcester Art Museum of Worcester, Massachusetts, provides selected images and explanatory text
on samples of precolumbian art in their collections.