Above: Headdress. Crow, Great Plains. 19th century. Wool, beads, eagle feathers, fur. H: 183 cm. Musée du Quai Branly, inv. 71.1885.78.498. Photo: Claude Germain, © Musée du Quai Branly. 42 Below: Drawing depicting a killing in Texas. Arapaho, Great Plains. Before 1868. The St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, gift of William H. Rennick. Above: Pendant. Late Mississippian, Anton Rygh site, Campbell County, South Dakota. AD 1500–1700. Shell. H: 14.29 cm. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Below and lower right: Mantle. Quapaw, Great Plains. C. 1740. Hide, pigment. Musée du Quai Branly, inv. 71.1934.33.7.D, collection of the Bibliothèque Municipale de Versailles. Photo: Patrick Gries, © Musée du Quai Branly. Right and below: Full view and detail of a painted robe. Sioux, Great Plains. Early 19th century. Hide, pigment, porcupine quills. L: 247 cm. Musée du Quai Branly, gift of Chaplain Duparc, inv. 71.1886.17.1. Photo: Patrick Gries and Valérie Torre, © Musée du Quai Branly. ART on view PLAINS INDIANS Paris—Completing this spring’s programming, the Indiens des Plaines (Plains Indians) exhibition season’s will undoubtedly be the highlight. It is presented by the Musée du Quai Branly in partnership with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is being curated by Gaylord Torrence, senior curator in the department of American Indian Art at the Nelson-Atkins. On view in the Quai Branly’s Garden Gallery from April 8 through July 20, 2014, the exhibition promises to offer an unprecedented panorama of Plains Indian aesthetic traditions. The term “Plains” covers a vast territory extending from the Mississippi Basin in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Rio Grande in Texas in the south to the upper reaches of the Saskatchewan River in central Alberta in the north. It has traditionally been inhabited by including many different Native American tribes, the Crow, the Sioux, the Blackfoot, the Arapaho, and the Comanche, to name just a few. selected The installation will feature 133 works from museum and private collections, both European and American, displayed in a deliberately minimalist environment, featuring long wideopen horizontal bases that evoke the spaces of the Plains and lines of tangled vertical poles, reminiscent both of teepee structures and the trees of the great forests. The artworks featured will be varied and cover an extended period of time, ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. They will include sculptures, drawings, hide paintings, embroideries, headdresses, etc., all of which exhibit remarkable continuity of form and
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