Art: Tribes in the Gallery

The aesthetic eye goes foraging in the wake of historical disaster. Having striven for 300 years to dispossess and wreck the Indians with gun. bottle. Bible and treaty, white America is now focusing an unprecedented degree of interest on their artifacts, which. like deposits on the verge of a shrinking lake, mark the point from which cultures drained away. A magnificent collection of these relics, selected from the so-called "historical period" of North American Indian culture (17th to 19th centuries), is now on view at Manhattan's Whitney Museum.

It is a curious fact...

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