WINIKO : life of an object : selections from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Cover Image

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WINIKO : life of an object : selections from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian / editors, heather ahtone, James Pepper Henry.

Ahtone, Heather (editor.). Henry, James Pepper (editor.). First Americans Museum (issuing body.).

Summary:

Exhibition catalog for eponymous exhibition, featuring objects on long-term loan from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian to First Americas Museum to foster a reunion between the objects and the 39 Tribal Nations located in Oklahoma.

Record details

ISBN: 9781737332121 (softcover)
Physical Description: 126 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oklahoma City : First Americas Museum, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

WINIKO (Definition) -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction : Welcoming home our relatives -- Indigenous futurity as WINIKO -- Reconciled truths: Reestablishing the ancestral and spiritual connection with material culture -- A letter to the items on display in WINIKO : life of an object -- Asserting cultural protocol for the Quapaw Crock Water Drum -- Ancestors and objects escaping "civilization" and going home -- Itemized exhibition objects list by tribe.