After the Buffalo Were Gone: The Louis Warren Hill, Sr., Collection of Indian Art.

Authors

Richard W. Etulain, University of New Mexico

Date of this Version

1987

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 7:2 (Spring 1987). Copyright © 1987 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

This catalogue of the Louis W. Hill Collection of Indian art and crafts, evenly divided between the Museum of the Plains Indians in Browning, Montana, and the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, makes available to specialists and general readers a visual portrait of a notable collection. While nearly 170 of the book's 256 pages consist of brief descriptions alongside black-and-white illustrations of items contained in the Hill collection, the volume also includes an account of Louis W. Hill, Glacier Park, and the gathering of the Hill collection by Ann T. Walton; a very brief essay by noted ethnologist John C. Ewers on his personal and scholarly reactions to the collection; and a discussion by Royal Hassrick, well-known authority on western Indians and art, of arts and crafts among northern plains Indians.