Installation view of exhibition titled “Indian Tribal Arts,” December 7, 1932 - January 8, 1933

• Main Author: The Cleveland Museum of Art
• Other Authors: Awa Tsireh, 1898-1955; The Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc.; Herrera, Velino; Peña, Maria Antonia, 1893-1949; Sloan, John, 1871-1951
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1932
• Subjects: Exhibition; Indigenous art > North America; Indians of North America > art; Indian; haida; tlingit
• Online Access: http://cdm17142.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17142coll1/id/3200

“Indian Tribal Arts” was a survey of art made by Indigenous North Americans from various geographic regions and prehistoric through modern times. Art by modern Indigenous artists such as Velino Herrera, Maria Antonia Peña, and Awa Tsireh was also included. According to the accompanying catalog, “The Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., was organized in 1930 for the purpose of stimulating and supporting American Indian artists by creating a wider interest and more intelligent appreciation of their work in the American public at large, and to demonstrate to the country what important contribution to our culture the Indian is making.” The president of the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., was artist John Sloan. The exhibition included art by the following people, cultures, and traditions: Acoma Pueblo, Apache, Chilkat Tlingit, Cochiti Pueblo, Dakota, Haida, Hopewell, Hopi, Iroquois, Kwakiutl or Kwakwakaʼwakw, Mono or Paiute, Mound-builders, Navajo or Diné, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Tlingit, Zia Pueblo, and Zuni. This list is based on available records and is not comprehensive.