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Honoring the Legacy
of Lewis and Clark: Native American Art and the Nineteenth Century
American West
pays homage to Native American art and culture with objects from
the Museum’s permanent collection and private loans.
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Complementing these
works are prints by George Catlin and Karl Bodmer showing images
of the land and people, on loan from the A. G. Edwards Corporate
Collection through the sponsorship of the Charlottesville
office.
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The Lewis
and Clark expedition of 1804–1806 encountered many Native American
groups as it traversed the prairie, plains, and plateau country,
finally arriving at the northwest coast. The American West, opened
by Lewis and Clark, was visited not only by explorers but also by
photographers and artists, who recorded the landscape and its inhabitants.
These images were disseminated in prints, books, and photographs,
expanding our country’s knowledge of its vast frontier.
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Trade between Native
Americans and Europeans was well established in some areas by
the early nineteenth century. Lewis and Clark carried glass beads
popular with Native American women for use in their arts. Dating
from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, this
selection of objects offers evidence that the native peoples encountered
by Lewis and Clark maintained their traditional styles and methods
of production nearly one hundred years later, incorporating native
and trade materials.
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On view will be beaded
garments from the Plains and Prairie peoples, basketry utilizing
local fibers crafted by peoples of the plateau, and Native American
objects that show the effect of continued contact with Euro-Americans.
The University of Virginia Art Museum is located at 155 Rugby
Road, one block from the Rotunda. Admission is free. PUblic hours
are 1:00-5:00, Tuesday through Sunday.
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