Mathews Zena. Color and Shape in American Indian Art

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1983. — 26 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-334-8The stereotype of Native American Art — that it is made up of feathers, buckskin, , and beads — was formed in the late nineteenth century, based on the resplendent paraphernalia of the Great Plains warrior, who, astride his spotted pony, rode into the history of the American West.