Metropolitan Museum
November 14, 2007
Objects to be on exhibition are drawn from the Metropolitan Museum's holdings and from the well-known American Indian collections of Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Charles and Valerie Diker of New York, among other lenders.
The first gift of Native American objects came to the Museum in 1879, when archaeological ceramic vessels - then known as Moundbuilder and originating in New Madrid County, Missouri - were given.
The display in the new gallery will be organized by North American region and will emphasize the art of the Great Plains, located in the vast mid-section of North America, and the Northwest Coast of the continent ranging high into the Arctic along the Pacific.
The peoples of the Plains, particularly those who lived in the second half of the 19th century, have come to embody the image of the American Indian in the popular imagination.
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