print email comment close First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art URL: http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/first_american_art/firstamericanart.html Description: Companion to a 2003-2006 Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian exhibit of art that focuses on the collectors' "love of beautiful objects" (rather than objects with historical significance or those that achieve ethnological representation). Features images of items from the collection and short essays on themes such as emotion, movement, and intimacy. Some of the items represented include baskets, moccasins, sculpture, and textiles. Publisher: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Extra Keywords Native American crafts Library of Congress Subject Headings: Indian arts -- North America Indians of North America -- Material culture LII Database Information: Record 21664 created by Jennifer English on 05/25/2006 Last modification on 05/30/2006 Published: 06/01/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21664