Peace medals : negotiating power in early America.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pickering, Robert B.

Reilly, F. Kent, III, 1945-2024

Tayman, Barry D.

Lopez, Tony

Liechty, Skyler.

Adams, John W.

King, Duane H.

Fuld, George

Arnold, Bruce W.

Goodyear, Frank H.

Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace--Medals--In art--Exhibitions.

Peace.

Indians in art--Exhibitions.

Indians in art.

Medals.

Exhibitions.

Genre:

Art.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

118 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Exhibition title: Peace medals: symbols of influence and prestige in North America

Place of Publication:

Tulsa, Okla. : Gilcrease Museum, [2011]

Summary:

This volume accompanies an exhibition, Peace Medals: Symbols of Influence and Prestige, which draws on the art and archival collections of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Pickering (academic affairs and publications, Gilcrease Museum, and museum science and management, U. of Tulsa) presents photos and paintings from the collection, along with essays on the history and significance of silver peace medals and shell gorgets given by American presidents to chiefs of important Native American tribes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the traditions they represent, and the individuals involved. A group of US historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and museum curators explores how the US government used the medals in negotiations with chiefs to secure trading partnerships and political allegiance against European colonial powers, and British, French, and Spanish medals used in negotiation to create Indian allies on the US continent. Distributed by the U. of Oklahoma Press. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Acknowlegdements

Preface

Chapter one: Searching for the stories behind the medals / Robert B. Pickering

Chapter two: Displaying the source of the sacred: shell gorgets, peace medals, and the accessing of supernatural powers / F. Kent Reilly III

Chapter three: Tomás Prieto's al Mérito Spanish Indian peace medals / Barry D. Tayman, Tony Lopez, and Skyler Liechty

Chapter four: The indian peace medals of Louis XV / John W. Adams

Chapter five: British medals depicted in Cherokee portraits of 1762 / Duane H. King

Chapter six: Washington oval peace medals / George J. Fuld

Chapter seven: French donative medals of Louis Philippe I / Bruce W. Arnold

Chapter eight: Keokuk's peace medals: mirrors onto a fractured are / Frank H. Goodyear III

Author's notes

Bibliography

Contributing author's biographies

Image list and credits

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-102) and index.

Published in conjunction with an exhibiton held at Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 4, 2011-April 1, 2012.

"Robert B. Pickering, Editor"--Flyleaf verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0981979947

9780981979946

OCLC:

759907989

Publisher Number:

99947014338