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Plains Indian Art: The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers. Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson. Preface by Candace C. Greene. Introduction by Evan M. Maurer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. xix + 203 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $39.95.
John Canfield Ewers (1909-1997) authored two important books on Plains Indian art: Plains Indian Painting: A Description of an Aboriginal American Art (1939) and Plains Indian Sculpture: A Traditional Art from America's Heartland (1986). The present collection is the second of two volumes of short essays first published in journals and specialized catalogs. The first, Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change (1997), included a number of...