Description

Smithsonian Institution Press, Published 1978. Wraps, 55 pp.; 30 cm; staple bound; illustrated with 30 black-and-white and 19 color photographs and diagrams. In Good+ condition. Dark teal pictorial covers with a tipi hide design and reddish-brown lettering on front cover; light bumping and creasing to edges and covers and spine fold; mild to moderate rubbing and scuffing to covers with mild color loss to edges, spine, and some patches on the covers. Staple binding is firm. Interior pages are clean and unmarked; color reproductions are bright. Published for the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts. Exhibition catalog accompanying "Murals in the Round," held at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., December 2, 1977 to November 12, 1978. Documents an exhibition of buckskin tipi models made for ethnographer James Mooney of the Smithsonian Institution during his field studies of Indian history and art in southwestern Oklahoma from 1891 to 1904. Each tipi entry includes origin and history, description of the painted designs, and color or black-and-white reproductions of the models. Includes notes and references.