American Indians, past and present: Featured in 'Spirit Capture' at Heye Center

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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 07-25-2001 American Indians, past and present: Featured in `Spirit Capture' at Heye Center NEW YORK - The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian has mounted its first-ever exhibit which surveys its photography archive of nearly 125,000 images. "Spirit Capture: Native Americans and the Photographic Image" will be on view through July 21, 2002, at the museum's George Gustav Heye Center in lower Manhattan. From Frank A.

Rinehart's historic images of Geronimo to haunting images of the massacre at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1890, the powerful exhibition explores the meaning of photographic images of and by American Indians. Combining historical and contemporary images, curators Richard W. Hill Sr., ...