Indigenous Motivations - Recent Acquisitions from the National Museum of the American Indian (Paperback)

Since its inception in 1989, the museum has added contemporary Native art and objects to its collections, across all genres. Indigenous Motivations highlights some of the most important, interesting, and amusing of these works, Brief, lively essays discuss why contemporary Native people continue to make art, and why museums collect it. It is the art itself, however, that steals the show. Never-before-published photographs convey the beauty and vitality of these newest treasures in the museum's marvelous collection.