Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions buffalo Time travel on the back

Time travel on the back of a wolverine

The lion didn't want to do it--

" -Mona Susan Power

engage tensions highlight the importance of balance

this gifted writer displays both her love of the Navajo world and her resonant use of language

Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions buffalo Time travel on the backThe faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to Chumash sculpture was rampant. Through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, Janet Catherine Berlo engages with troubling and sometimes confusing categories of inauthenticity. Based on decades of research as well as interviews with