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The Museum’s North American collections are strong in the material culture of groups in the Plains region. Gathered around the turn of the century, at a great florescence of Native American art and craft, these assemblages are a record, both sobering and heartening, of cultural change. They also reflect the long history of migration and diversification of Native people across the heartland of America.
The Museum holds one of the largest and most comprehensive collections, in any museum, from the Plains Cree, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Sioux, and Crow. Particularly fine is the assemblage of Crow shields, which continues to inspire and inform Crow traditional leaders, art historians, and anthropologists alike. |
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