Great Lakes Issue

36 Introduction: Recovering Histories, Celebrating Contact Arts, Naming Artists: A Note on New Directions in Great Lakes Art History
by Ruth B. Phillips

38 Anishinaabe Headgear: Symbolic, Cultural
and Linguistic Meanings
by Alan Ojiig Corbiere
Combines museum- and community-based research to further our understanding of Anishinaabe headgear in particular, as well as other items of material culture.

48 “Many Gifted Workers”:
Odawa Quill Artists Participating in the
Works Progress Administration
by Adriana Greci Green
Explores the quilled birchbark baskets made by Michigan Odawa women under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration, and in doing so sheds light on the transcultural relationships between settler women and Native artists.

60 The War of 1812 as Remembered in the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection
by Trudy Nicks
Examines a number of Great Lakes objects in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and reviews oral histories to better understand the Native warriors who participated in the War of 1812.

70 Anishinaabe Regalia of the Reservation Era, 1870s–1930s
by Cory Willmott
Discusses how reservation-era Anishinaabe people used clothing, particularly regalia, to intentionally communicate various aspects of their culture to both Natives and non-Natives.