Summary Of Plains Indians By Janet Berlo

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This weeks reading, Artists, Ethnographers, and Historians: Plains Indian Graphic Arts in the Nineteenth Century by Janet Berlo is an essay discussing the artwork of the Plains Indians. Through their artwork, we see the Plains people acting as historians and ethnographers in a time where it was believed only Euro-American social scientists were interested in the study of people and culture.
An interesting aspect presented in this essay is the drawing created by Pah-Bo depicting the exchange between Merritt Barber, an army captain, and the Kiowa people. This piece is a historical relation of the vastly changing world around the Kiowa people, as well as the documentation of Plains people culture. The visual details included in this piece are