Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700–1900

Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900. Ruth B. Phillips. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. 334 pp.     

Making a Mark: Rock Art Research

The Hunter's Vision: The Prehistoric Art of Zimbabwe. Peter Garlake. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. 176 pp.
Rock Art Studies in the Americas. Jack Steinbring. ed. Oxford, England: Oxbow Books, 1994. 186 pp.
L'art pariéetal Paléolithique. Techniques et méthodes d'étude. Le Groupe de Réflexion sur l'Art Pariétal Paléolithique. Documents Préhistoriques, 5. Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1993. 427 pp.     

A Portrait in Water Color

Bread Sculpture, The Edible Art by Ann Wiseman11 101 Productions San Francisco 94103 $6.95 cloth, $2.95 paper.

Professor Hammerfinger's Indestructible TOYS by Steve Ross Oliver Press Willits, Calif. 94590 $3.95.

Street Art by Robert Sommer Links Books New York City 10023 $7.95.

Your Homemade Greenhouse by Jack Kramer Walker and Company New York City 1019 $7.95.

Creating With Paper by Pauline Johnson University of Washington Press Seattle 98105 $10.95 cloth, $5.95 paper.     

Representing "The World Boiled Down"

Museums are object-rich environments through which very diverse audiences move. When teams of scholars, museum educators, and exhibit designers translate research into museum exhibitions, what ways of seeing do they (un)intentionally encourage, challenge, or disrupt? When representing historic paradigms through museum media, what are the most effective ways to stimulate reflection and critique? These questions are raised in this review of the book 1001 Curious Things: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and Native American Art and the Washington State History Museum exhibit of the same name.
The book and exhibit reviewed here invite us to peer through the windows of a Seattle curio shop to note particular aspects of early-20th-century Northwest Coast and Native Alaskan artifact trade. We learn how Ye Olde Curiosity Shop was a powerful mediator of public perception of indigenous peoples and an unexpected source of artifacts for notable ethnographic collections worldwide.     

Bamana Identity, State Formation, and the Sources of Bamana Art

Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali. Museum for African Art, New York. September 19, 2001—March 2, 2002.
Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali. Jean-Paul Colleyn. ed. New York: Museum for African Art, in association with Museum Rietberg and Snoek-Ducaju and Zoon, 2001. 263 pp.     

The Representation of African Pastoralists: A Commentary

The Seattle Art Museum has been fortunate to have received major collections of African, Asian, and Northwest Coast Native American art, which now make up the bulk of its permanent collection. The display of this “other” art poses problems for curators who wish to eschew what they term an anthropological presentation yet provide context for the viewer. For the recent exhibition of “Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back,” the museum invited several artists, performers and scholars, all of whom were members of the cultures whose art was on display, to add their curatorial voices to the presentation. The central premise was to create an immersion experience of African art for the visitor, as defined by indigenous voices. Those voices came through an audio tour compiled from interview tapes with no added narration, and lengthy interviews on computer monitors. Some objects could be recognized through performance videos played as wall-sized projections. None of the artworks was identified by individual labels. During the exhibition, visitors were asked to complete comment questionnaires. Although many had positive things to say about the image of Africa gained through the exhibition, others expressed dismay at what they saw as negative stereotypes. The severest criticism came from Africans who had not been part of the advisory team. This article analyzes the responses, and questions the way in which one's personal image of Africa, whether one is curator or visitor, acts as mediator of experiences gained from an exhibition.     

Structural analysis of the glycoprotein allergen Art v II from the pollen of mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris L.).

The glycoprotein allergen Art v II, from the pollen of mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris L.) was treated with peptide:N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) to release asparagine-linked oligosaccharides. The oligosaccharides were isolated by gel permeation chromatography and their structures determined by 500-MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy, fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry, and high-pH anion-exchange chromatography. The high-mannose oligosaccharides Man5GlcNAc2, Man6GlcNAc2, Man7GlcNAc2, Man8GlcNAc2, and Man9GlcNAc2 were present in the ratios 2:49:19:24:6 and accounted for all the asparagine-linked oligosaccharides released from Art v II by PNGase F. The NH2-terminal amino acid sequences of Art v II and of four peptides generated by cyanogen bromide (CNBr) cleavage of deglycosylated Art v II were determined. The first 30 amino acid residues of Art v II did not contain any potential N-glycosylation sites. One potential N-glycosylation site was identified in one of the CNBr fragments. The native protein conformation was shown by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay inhibition assays to be essential for the binding of rabbit IgG to Art v II and for the binding of human IgE to the major IgE-binding epitope(s) in this allergen. At least one minor IgE-binding epitope still bound IgE after denaturation of the allergen. Removal of the high-mannose chains from denatured Art v II had no significant effect on the binding of human IgE to the minor IgE-binding epitope(s).     

Introduction to the Primates

Introduction to the Primates. Daris R. Swindler. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. 284 pp.     

The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya

The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya. . J. Mark Baker. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 272 pp.     

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

. Year in the Life of. Shinto Shrine. John K. Nelson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 286 pp.     

Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority

Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority . P'al Ny'iri. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 143 pp.     

Ciuliamta Akluit: Things of Our Ancestors: Yup'ik Elders Explore the Jacobsen Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin

Ciuliamta Akluit: Things of Our Ancestors: Yup'ik Elders Explore the Jacobsen Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin . Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 420 pp.     

Hip-Hop: The Culture, the Sound, the Science; One Planet under a Groove: Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art

Hip-Hop: The Culture, the Sound, the Science. The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. January 18–May 27, 2002.
One Planet under. Groove: Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art. The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. October 26, 2001—March 3, 2002; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, July 14–October 13, 2002; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, Spring 2003.     

Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe

Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe. Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid. eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.336 pp.     

Imaging the Arctic.

Imaging the Arctic. J. C. H. King and Henrietta Lidchi. eds. London: British Museum Press, 1998. (Also Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998; Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998.) 256 pages.     

Contested Arctic: Indigenous Peoples, Industrial States, and the Circumpolar Environment

Contested Arctic: Indigenous Peoples, Industrial States, and the Circumpolar Environment. Eric Alden Smith and Joan McCarter. eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.156pp.     

Introduction to the primates

Introduction to the Primates. By Daris R. Swindler. 1998. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. 284 pp. ISBN 0-295-97704-3. $22.00 (paper).     

The role of the calponin homology domain of smoothelin-like 1 (SMTNL1) in myosin phosphatase inhibition and smooth muscle contraction

Arginine-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase (Art) catalyzes the mono-ADP-ribosylation, in which it transfers a single ADP-ribose moiety of NAD to the arginine residue(s) of target proteins, and may regulate the function of the proteins or peptides in cellular processes. In vertebrates, Art family is consisted of seven members (Arts1-7), and these Arts are distributed among various tissues except B lymphocytes. Previously, we described molecular cloning, characterization and distribution of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored Arts, Art7.1 and Art7.2 (formerly, we referred as cgArt1 and cgArt2, respectively) in chicken tissues (Terashima et al (2005) Biochem J 389:853-861). Here, we demonstrate for the first time that Art7.1 was predominantly expressed on the surface of B cells from the bursa of Fabricius as a GPI-anchored form, as well as on T cells from the thymocytes. Furthermore, we show that the expression of Art7.1 molecules on B cells could modulate the B cell receptor (BCR) signalling and direct the B cell fate to maturation. Thus, our present observation sheds light on the Art molecule expressed on B cells and its possible functional role in BCR signalling.     

Crafting Exhibitions

Book reviewed in this article:
Crafting Exhibitions: Contemporary Navajo Weaving: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum .
Crafting Exhibitions: Reflections of the Weavers' World: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum .     

Museum Exhibit and Photographic Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire . Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim
African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire . Enid Schildkrout, Curtis A. Keim