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‘Mato-tope’s Shirt’, likely made by George Catlin (Washington, DC: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, NMNHanthropology 8420507). More information is available here»

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From the Bard Graduate Center:

Janet Catherine Berlo | Not Native American Art? Forgeries, Replicas and Other Vexed Identities
Bard Graduate Center, New York, 3 May 2023, 6.00pm

In Native North American artistic traditions, what is a replica? What constitutes a copy? In contrast with the larger field of art history, there is almost no literature on forgeries and replicas in this sub-field. Join us for Janet Catherine Berlo’s lecture, adapted from the introduction to her forthcoming book, Not Native American Art, where she considers notions of replicas, copies, tributes, forgeries, pastiches, and even digital surrogates as they apply to archaeological, historical, and contemporary Native arts of North America.

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Janet Catherine Berlo, professor of art history and visual and cultural studies emerita at the University of Rochester, holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University. She is the author of many publications on the Indigenous arts of the Americas, including the most widely-used textbook in the field, Native North American Art, with Ruth B. Phillips (Oxford, second edition 2015). Berlo has also written on American art history and quilt history. Her forthcoming book, Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions will be published by the University of Washington Press in July 2023.