While Booth Western Art Museum’s core collection focuses on the west and its people, visitors often inquire about images of the Native Americans who lived in the southeast.
To address this desire, the Booth is set to open Thursday an exhibit, organized by High Museum of Art in Atlanta with the support of Ann and Tom Cousins, titled The Indian Gallery of Henry Inman. Scheduled to be on view through Oct. 7, the exhibition will feature more than a dozen portraits of Southeast Indian Chiefs from the early 1800s, as well as works by artisans of the time.
“With few remnants of the previous tenants who called the southeast region ‘home,’ it is easy to forget that by the early 1800’s the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indians had largely become hybrid peoples, with degrees of assimilation or resistance to European-American customs while preserving
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