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Newsletter Volume XIII, No. 3 April 2001 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM - NAASA CONFERENCE OCT. 24-27, 2001 Wednesday, October 24 Paramount Hotel 5:00 - 7:00 pm    Registration 7:00 - 9:00 pm    Welcome Reception All conference sessions will be held at the Portland Art Museum This year's program will include: Organized sessions with 20-minute papers. Poster Sessions with displays that will be set up in a room during the entire conference (see list at end of program). On Friday afternoon Poster Authors will be available to discuss their posters. Lunch Discussion Groups: Conference attendees will have the opportunity to post their own lunch discussion topics. Thursday, October 25 8:00 am - 5:00 pm    Registration 8:30 - 9:00 am    Welcome, Local Representative and Robin Wright, President 9:00 - 9:30 am    Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Woody 9:30 - 11:00 am Plenary Session, Part I: The View From Here: Contemporary Native Artists in Oregon Organizers: Barbara Loeb, Oregon State University and Rebecca Dobkins, Willamette University Artists will include: Rick Bartow, James Lavadour, Lillian Pitt, Marie Watt, Bud Lane, Pat Courtney Gold, Geraldine Jim, and Minerva Soucie 11:00 - 12:30    Lunch 12:30 - 2:00    Plenary Session, Part II 2:00 - 2:15    Break 2:15 - 3:45    Concurrent Sessions Session I Native American Art and Early 20th Century Curio Enterprises, Part I Chair, Kate C. Duncan, Arizona State University The Rise and Fall of the Benham Indian Trading Company: A Study in Southwestern Entrepreneurship      Kathy Howard, Department of History, Arizona State University From Curios to Curator: Allie BraMe, the Arizona Curio Company and the Heard Museum      Diana Pardue, Heard Museum George Wharton James: A Curious Man in the American Indian Curio Trade      Kathleen Whitaker, School of American Research, Santa Fe "I Have On Hand at Present Some Very Desirable Baskets": Carl Purdy, Curio Basket Buyer      Sherrie Smith-Ferri, Grace Hudson Museum Session II Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists - panel discussion Organizer: Carolyn Kastner, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco. Nurtured in the Northwest: Contemporary American Glass Art      Lloyd Herman, independent curator Fusing Traditions: An Exhibition of Contemporary Works in Glass by Native American Artists      Roslyn Tunis, independent curator "Anxious Objects": Glass in the Context of Contemporary Native American Art      Kate Morris, California College of Arts and Crafts From the Fire Pit of the Canoe People      Preston Singletary, independent artist 3:45 - 4:00    Break 4:00 - 5:30    Concurrent Sessions Session I Native American Art and Early 20th Century Curio Enterprises, Part II Chair, Kate C. Duncan, Arizona State University Mohonk to Mohawk: What's in a Name? From Mission Outreach to Commercial Venture      Barbara Hail, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Up to the Lake on Highway 169: The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post      Marcia G. Anderson, Minnesota Historical Society Lakota Art on the Road      Marcia Bol, University of Texas at San Antonio Discussant: Kate Duncan, Arizona State University Session II Southeastern Indian Arts: A Perspective on Contemporary Southern Indian Aesthetics Chair: Mary Jo Watson, University of Oklahoma. Southeastern Painting: Oklahoma Indian Women Painters      Mary Jo Watson, University of Oklahoma Seminole Tribal Clothing: Developing an Aesthetic Standard      Dorothy Downs, independent scholar The Harris Collection: Choctaw Baskets of the Late 19th and Early 20 Centuries      Marshall Gettys, independent scholar Art in Transition: Basketry Traditions among the Louisiana Tribes      Louisiana Dayna Bowker Lee, Louisiana Regional Folklife Program 6:00 - 7:00 pm - Oregon Historical Society Reception to view the Pamplin collection of Plains and Plateau material on display, curated by Mary Schlick. Friday, October 26 8:00 am - 5:00 pm    Registration 8:45 - 9:00    Announcements 9:00 - 10:30    Plenary Session [title to come, 4 speakers] Chair: Bill Mercer 10:30 - 11:00    Break 11:00 - 12:30    Concurrent Sessions Session I A Look At Native American Art Studies - Panel Discussion Board-sponsored, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of NAASA Moderator: Candace Green, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Participants will include: Lee Anne Wilson, Janet Berlo, J.C.H. King, Arthur Amiotte Session II Indigenous Artist Collaborations Session Organizer, Zena Pearlstone Theft And Fraudulence?: Australian Aboriginal/Non-Indigenous Collaborations      Vivien Johnson, The Australian National University, Canberra TransIndigenous Arts in the BorderZone      Tressa Berman, BorderZone Arts; California Academy of Sciences Ancestral Reunions: The Hopi/Celtic Collaboration      Zena Pearlstone, California State University, Fullerton Discussant: Kate Morris, Columbia University, New York 12:30 - 2:00    Lunch 2:00 - 3:30    Concurrent Sessions Session I - Open Session - Southwest Chair: Bruce Bernstein, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution Firing Outside: Supporting Traditional Technologies      Karl A. Hoerig, Independent scholar The Byron Harvey, III, Collection of Native American Painting      Bill Anthes, University of Memphis Sacred Illusions: A Unique Collection of Zuni Pots      Bruce Bernstein, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution Modesty Unbound: Re-appraising the Chabot Collection of Navajo Jewellery      Henrietta Lidchi, British Museum Session II - Open Session - Woodlands and Plains Chair: Kathleen Ash-Milby, independent scholar Discovering Metis: Identifying a Collection from Scratch at the National Museum of the American Indian      Ann McMullen and Emil Her Many Horses, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution Beading and Quilling the World: Cheyenne and Arapaho Tipi Decoration      Adrianne Santina, independent scholar Native American Re-representation through Visual Culture in Wisconsin Casinos: an Ethnographic Study      Patricia L. Stuhr, The Ohio State University An Investigation of Muscogee (Creek) Indian Art: Following the Art Spirit from Traditional Origins to Contemporary Conclusions      Angela Kalb, The Ohio State University 2:00 - 4:00    Poster Sessions with authors available for discussion (see list at bottom of program) 3:30 - 4:00    Break with Hors d'Oeuvres 4:00 - 6:00    Business meeting Saturday, October 27 8:00 am - Noon    Registration 8:45 - 9:00    Announcements 9:00 - 10:30    Concurrent Sessions Session I Iconography and Mississippian Period Art: The Function of Symbols within the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, Part I Chair: F. Kent Reilly, III, Southwest Texas State University The Shrine of the Hawk-Weaving the Cosmos      Alice B. Kehoe, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Headdresses in the Iconography of the Southeast      T. Clay Schultz, The University of Texas, Austin Iconography of the Natural World: Late Mississippian Ceramics from the Humber-McWilliams Site      Tucker V. White, The University of Memphis Copper and Style in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex      Amy Trevelyan, Gettysburg College Spinning the Meaning: Spider Imagery on Prehistoric Shell Gorgets      Jason Wyatt, The University of Memphis Session II - Open Session - Northwest Coast Chair: Megan Smetzer, University of British Columbia Privileged Knowledge Versus Public Education: A Case-Study of Acwsalcta, the Nuxalk Nation "House of Learning"      Jennifer Kramer, Columbia University, New York Sacred Showings: Four Drawings of Northwest Coast Art on Display in Edinburgh during the 1780s      J.C.H. King, The British Museum Necklines: A Consideration of the Origins of Tlingit Beaded Dance Collars      Megan Smetzer, University of British Columbia Columbia River Stone Sculpture      Bill Mercer, Portland Art Museum 10:30 - 11:00    Break 11:00 - 12:30    Concurrent Sessions Session I Iconography and Mississippian Period Art: The Function of Symbols within the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, Part II Chair: F. Kent Reilly, III, Southwest Texas State University The Iconography of War on Southeastern Ceramics      David H. Dye, The University of Memphis The Hand and Eye Motif and its Various Expressions at the Spiro Site      Carrie L. Davis, The University of Memphis Emblems of Rank and Membership: Tattooing in the Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Record      Chester P. Walker, University of Texas, Austin The Striped Pole Motif and the Ritual Construction of Cosmic Order in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex      F. Kent Reilly, III, Southwest Texas State University Session II Other Early Exhibitions of Native American Art Chair: Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard College The Importance of Scale in the Quest for Statehood: Native American Art at the St. Louis World's Fair      Joyce Szabo, University of New Mexico Industrial Art Exhibitions and North American Native Art      Mary Donahue, Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts Alaska Native Art Displayed by Early Alaskan Museums      Steve Henrikson, Alaska State Museum Early Modern Inuit Art: The 1949 Montreal Handicrafts Guild Exhibition of "Eskimo Carving"      Norman Vorano, University of Rochester 12:30 - 2:00    Lunch 2:00 - 3:30    Concurrent Sessions Session I The Image as Self: Strategies for Self-Representation, Part I Co-Chairs: Gail Tremblay and Mario A. Caro, Evergreen State College "This film has been modified from its original version": Films of the Kwakwaka'wakw from Curtis to U'mista      Katie Bunn-Marcuse, University of Washington Changing Perspectives: Photography and First Nations Identity in Canada      Keri Cronin, Queen's University Independence Day: Strategies of Lakota Performance on the Fourth of July      Adriana Greci Green, Rutgers University From the Fourth World to the Art World: Dan Namingha and the Question of Hopi Identity      David Martinez, University of Minnesota Session II Thinking Outside the Classroom: Contemporary Dialogues on Native Art Scholarship in Museums Co-Chairs: Nancy Marie Mithlo, Smith College and Jane Sinclair, Denver Art Museum More Than Just Indian Objects on Display      Emma Hansen, Plains Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Historical Center Native Arts in Transformation: Exploring Cross-Cultural Trends      Nadema Agard, National Museum of the American Indian The Importance of Indians Working in Museums, if You Can Get Them To!      Geneva Navarro, community scholar, Santa Fe, New Mexico Exhibiting American Indian Art: Diverse Art, Diverse Audiences      Jane Sinclair, Denver Art Museum Discussant: Nancy Marie Mithlo, Smith College 3:30 - 4:00    Break 4:00 - 5:15    Concurrent Sessions Session I The Image as Self: Strategies for Self-Representation, Part II Co-Chairs: Gail Tremblay and Mario A. Caro, Evergreen State College Peach Blossom's Revenge: Post-Colonial Parallels in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Aboriginal Art      Allan J. Ryan, Carleton University Finding Her Way Home: The Performance Work of Margo Kane      Paula Tharp, University of Washington Curating Self: Indian Art Collectives      Dana Claxton, independent artist Session II The Use Of Non-Traditional Technologies In Native American Art Study Sometimes You Just Can't Believe Your Eyes: Grayscale Value Distortions in Nineteenth Century Photographs      Bill Holm, Emeritus, University of Washington High Pressure Liquid Chromatography Dye Analysis of Navajo Textiles      Casey Reed, University of New Mexico Three-Dimensional Computer-Based Reconstruction of a Classic-Period Haida Village      Rick Speer, independent scholar 6:30    Banquet and Honor Award Presentation Poster Session Topics: The Fort Marion Project      Candace S. Greene, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and Karen Kramer, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution Visual Literacy: Reading and Understanding Lakota Pictography      Christina E. Burke, American Indian Studies Research Institute Sovereign Landscapes of Dialectical Images: Native North American Photographers      Veronica Passalacqua, Oxford University and University of California, Irvine Ten Years of NAGPRA: A Review of Repatriation Claims for American Indian Art, 1990-2000      Joyce Herold, Denver Art Museum Lower Columbia River Painting on Leather Armor      Steve Henrikson, Alaska State Museum