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March 18, 2005
Richard F. Townsend, ed. Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Yale University Press, 2003. 288 pp.; 320 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300104677)

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., November 20, 2004–January 30, 2005; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo., March 4–May 30, 2005

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2005.17

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Notched ovate bannerstone. Michigan, ca. 4800 B.C. Banded Slate, h. 12.7 cm. Steve and Susan Hart Collection Hunting, Indiana (cat. 5/G21894). The design of this famous piece features a symmetrical convex and concave outline, with a natural pattern of banded slate rising in chevrons across the central axial ridge.

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Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South explores a period and a region of indigenous art little known even within the field of Native American art studies. Long studied by archaeologists, this vast area, roughly bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico, has been largely neglected by art historians and art museums. The only previous large-scale exhibition of material...