Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions Upper Skagit The tribal elders are keepers

The tribal elders are keepers of knowledge and never stop teaching

inviting readers follow Grandmother

helping to connect the missing “dots” in this period

Original Man and his grandmother

Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions Upper Skagit The tribal elders are keepersThe faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to Chumash sculpture was rampant. Through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, Janet Catherine Berlo engages with troubling and sometimes confusing categories of inauthenticity. Based on decades of research as well as interviews with