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Volume XIII, No. 3 April 2001 Southeastern Indian Arts: A Perspective of Contemporary Southern Indian Aesthetics In the American south there is an active population of Native Americans who create specialized art. Cherokee baskets of North Carolina and Oklahoma are just one example. Mississippi Choctaw baskets, and their Oklahoma counterparts are further examples of continued artistic expression which offer a continuation of a southern Indigenous aesthetic standard. Numerous tribal arts continue throughout the deep south and its western satellite, Oklahoma. Southern tribal arts have well-documented pre-contact origin and retain a solid place in the art history of southern tribes. Currently, tribal artists continue to produce painting, beadwork, basketry, carving, jewelry and accoutrements for ceremonial art. This session will focus on information coming from Southern Indian art scholarship with a focus on contemporary art creation. Among issues addressed will be the continuation of a Southern Indian aesthetic through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Submit abstracts for this session by May 15th directly to: Mary Jo Watson |