By John B. Grimes with essays by Christian F. Feest, Mary Curran, Dan L. Monroe, Richard W. Hill et al.
Published in 2002 by the AFA in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
272 pages, 154 illus. (133 in color), 9 × 12 in.
Paper • ISBN 0-885444-23-0 • $42.00 (AFA)

Founded in 1799 by an elite group of sea captains, the Peabody Essex Museum holds one of the oldest collections of native art in the nation. Throughout the nineteenth century, mariners, missionaries, and merchants assembled this extraordinary collection. By doing so they chronicled the creative output of the people with whom they had contact, as well as the profound social, political, and economic change that they brought with them. Through approximately 100 exemplary art works, this catalogue reveals the richness of indigenous cultures of the Americas, while examining how the new ideas, influences, and shifting conventions of their community affected the Native Americans' creative responses.