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Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965-1985 (Exhibition)
birth: 1986 June 6
death: 1986 October 5
Exhibition. Opened in June 6, 1986 and closed October 5, 1986. Located in Section 4, Floor 1 in Gallery 1 at the American Museum of Natural History. "Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965-1985" was an exhibition featuring many "contemporary-traditional" works of American Indian art and focused on the survival of Native American artistic traditions.
Summary
"Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965-1985" was an exhibition featuring many "contemporary-traditional" works of American Indian art and focused on the survival of Native American artistic traditions. Some 383 works by more than 200 artists from the United States and Canada were on view. Among them were textiles, pottery, baskets, jewelry and carvings. Works employing such materials as beads, porcupine quills, hides, furs, birchbark, wood splints, bone and metal demonstrated styles and techniques rooted in the past. The items were collected by Ralph T. Coe, curator of the exhibit. The exhibition was organized by the American Federation of Arts and made possible by grants from the American Can Company Foundation with partial support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sacred Circles Fund. The exhibition was on view in Gallery 1 of the American Museum of Natural History from June 6 through October 5, 1986 before embarking on a two-year national tour.
Individuals and institutions involved in the creation of the exhibition: American Federation of Arts; Ralph T. Coe.