By Janet Catherine Berlo et al.
Published in 1996 by the AFA and the Drawing Center in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
256 pages, 87 illus. (82 in color), 10 x 12 in.
Paper • ISBN 0-885444-02-8 • $45.00 (AFA)

Plains Indians Drawings focuses on ledger drawings—a practice adapted by Plains Indians from their longstanding tradition of illustrating buffalo hides during a period when this and other aspects of Native American life were being displaced by American expansion and development.  The catalogue features eighty-seven illustrations of ledger drawings and related works, texts by Janet Catherine Berlo and Gerald McMaster, the co-curators of the exhibition, and additional contributions by an extensive group of accomplished artists and scholars:  Anna Blume, Jennifer A. Cets, Candace S. Greene, Marilee Jantzer-White, Jacki Thompson Rand, W. Jackson Rushing, Joyce M. Szabo, Jennifer Vigil, and Edwin L. Wade.  Also included are statements by contemporary Native American artists Colleen Cutschall, Edgar Heap of Birds, Jane Ash Poitras, and Francis Yellow on the lasting significance of ledger drawings for their own work.