Arni Brownstone
Assistant Curator (Plans Indian Culture)
Area: World Cultures, Canada
Exhibitions & Galleries: Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples
Bio
BFA (Honours), Visual Arts, York University, 1974
Arni Brownstone curates the ethnographic collections from Latin American, and the following regions of North America: Great Plains, Plateau, Great Basin, and the Southwest. His responsibilities include the development of exhibitions and galleries drawing on material from those areas. His scholarly focus is on the visual culture of the northern Plains Indians, with a special interest in Plains Indian pictographic painting. He is currently working toward a survey book based on his re-drawings of over fifty large-scale pictographic paintings, some of which are detailed below.
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Recent Publications
| Year | Publication |
|---|---|
| In press | "Painting and Engraving East of the Rockies." Handbook Of North American Indians, Volume 16, Technology and Visual Arts, 16 |
| In Prep. | "War Paintings of the Tsuu T'ina First Nation." (working title) |
| 2011 | M.-H. Pottier, ed. Figeac. "Un Parallélisme: La pictographie indienne et la tradition orale." Mémoires Indiennes, France: Musée Champollion |
| 2011 | "Mysteries of the Sculptural Narrative Pipes from Manitoulin Island." American Indian Art Magazine, Summer-36, 3, 54-63 & 84-85. (PDF) |
| 2010 | "Composition and Inconography in Painted Plains Indian Shirts." Generous Man/Ahxsi-tapina: Essays in Memory of Colin Taylor, Wyk, Germany: Tatanka Press (PDF) |
| 2008 | "Reverend John Mclean and the Bloods." American Indian Art Magazine, 33, 3, 44-57. (PDF) |
| 2007 | "Explorations War Paint: Tipi liner tells the tale of one Blackfoot warrior's exploits." ROM Magazine, Summer, 21-22. (PDF) |
| 2007 | "Bull Head's Revenge." Open Letter, A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, 13, 1, 136-145. (PDF) |
| 2007 | "Big Nose and His Painted Elk Skin." Plains Anthropologist, 52, 202, 195-207. (PDF) |
| 2005 | "Treasures from the Bloods." Rotunda, 37, 3, 22-31. (PDF) |
| 2005 | "The 'Many Shots' Robe." Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, 1-10. (PDF) |
| 2005 | "Spirit of the Plains." Rotunda, 37, 3, 14-21. (PDF) |
| 2005 | "Bear Chief's War Deed Tipi." The People of the Buffalo, Volume 2, The Plains Indians of North America, The Silent Memorials: Artifacts as Cultural and Historical Documents, Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers, 2, 43-55. (PDF) |
| 2004 | "Animal Arrays and Geometric Pictorials: Commercial Aspects of Plains Painting." European Review of Native American Studies, 18, 1, 9-19. (PDF) |
| 2003 | "Rosettes Abloom: Solving a Beadwork Mystery." Rotunda, 36, 1, 5. (PDF) |
| 2002 | "Ancestors: The Deane-Freeman Collections from the Bloods." American Indian Art Magazine, 27, 3, 38-49, 73-77. (PDF) |
| 2002 | "Anatomy of a Fake." European Review of Native American Studies, 16, 2, 55-56. (PDF) |
| 2001 | "The Musee de l'Homme's Foureau Robe and Its Moment in the History of Blackfoot Painting." Plains Anthropologist, 46, 177, 249-267. (PDF) |
| 2001 | "Seven War-exploit Paintings: A Search for Their Origins." Studies in Native American Art: A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder, 69-85. (PDF) |
| 2001 | "La Couverture blackfoot de la collection Foureau du Musee de l'Homme." Gradhiva, 29, 62-76. |
| 2000 | "A Whip is Just a Whip." Rotunda, 33, 1, 6. (PDF) |
| 1998 | Colin F. Taylor. "Book Review. "Catlin’s O-Kee-Pa: Mandan Culture and Ceremonial, The George Catlin Manuscript in the British Museum." European Review of Native American Studies, 12, 1, 55-56. (PDF) |
| 1998 | "Stretch to Fit." Rotunda, 31, 1, 48. (PDF) |
| 1997 | "Fit for a Cinderella?." Rotunda, 30, 2, 48. (PDF) |
| 1996 | "Not a Decoy." Rotunda, 28, 4, 48. |
| 1996 | "Lienzo of Tlapiltepec: A Weaving of Ancient Mexican History." Que Pasa, 1, 4, 15-18. |
| 1996 | "Blackfoot Beadwork: A Tradition Embroidered in Glass." Rotunda, 29, 1, 11-21. (PDF) |
| 1995 | "A Headdress Fit for a Horse?." Rotunda, 28, 1, 41-47. (PDF) |
| 1994 | "Shirt Tales." Rotunda, 27, 4, 48. (PDF) |
| 1993 | "War Paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Buffalo Robes in the Royal Ontario Museum." Royal Ontario Museum Publications |
| 1991 | "Rare Buffalo Robe Acquired." Rotunda, 24, 2, 5-6. (PDF) |
| 1985 | "A New Perspective on the Blackfoot." Rotunda, 18, 2, 40-45. (PDF) |
| 1998. "Slippers Fit for a Bride." Rotunda, 31, 1, 5-8. (PDF) |