Transcending the Stereotype

Finally, an art exhibition that explains the artistic language of American Indians along with the usual ethnographic concerns.
Perhaps it was inevitable that it would be in the year of the Columbus quincentenary, and particularly soon after its colossal 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, that the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., would choose to mount an exhibition of American Indian art and artifacts and then leave it up for a full eight months, far longer than most, if not all, of its other exhibitions. The exhibition is question is Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Collecting of Chandler and Pohrt.