Illustrates the many objects in the collection. Includes memoirs, essay and text.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Art of the American frontier, organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts in association with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Exhibition schedule: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 24, 1992-January 24, 1993; Seattle Art Museum, March 11-May 9, 1993; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, June 18-September 12, 1993; the Detroit Institute of Arts, October 15, 1993-February 6, 1994" -- T.p. verso.

Introduction: Art of the American Indian frontier -- Expressions of ethnicity: nineteenth-century dress -- Metonym and metaphor: public and private meanings in sculpture, engraiving, and painting -- American Indian dress: the techniques of ethnic expression -- Woodlands and prairies -- Clothing accessories of the early nineteenth century: porcupine quill and buckskin -- Early finger-woven textiles -- Heddle-woven garters and sashes -- Warp-faced twined bags -- Great Lakes and Midwest dress, 1830-1850 -- Embroidery of the Southeast before 1830 -- Early loom-woven beadwork -- Turbans and bearclaw necklaces -- Synthesis and innovation: the prairie style, 1860-1900 -- Later woven beadwork -- Later twined and finger-woven textiles -- Formal dress at the close of the nineteenth century -- Plains -- Early dress of the "Upper Missouri style" -- Early seed bead embroidery: the emergence of tribal style -- Parfleche: rawhide painting -- Between cultures: dress of the Red River Metis -- Later dress and decorative arts of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowa -- Later dress and decorative arts of the Sioux -- Later dress and decorative arts of the Crow and the "Transmontane style" -- Later dress and decorative arts of the Northwest Plains: Mandan, Blackfeet, and Gros Ventre -- The measure of men: feather bonnets -- Objects and images -- Great Lakes and prairies -- Exchanges of trust -- Weapons of war -- Smoking pipes: pleasing the spirits -- Tools as sculpture -- Vessels and utensils: bowls and spoons -- Images as effigies -- The language of pictographs -- Plains -- Clubs and coup sticks -- Elk antler quirts -- The gift of red stone: Plains smoking pipes -- Feasts for power: bowls and spoons -- Visionary painting -- Pictographs as history -- The Miami war pipe / Milford G Chandler -- A collector's life: a memoir of the Chandler-Pohrt collection / Richard A. Pohrt -- Richard A. Pohrt / George P. Horse Capture -- Collecting and the meaning of collections.