Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions Upper Skagit Working together in this remarkable

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Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions Upper Skagit Working together in this remarkableThe faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to Chumash sculpture was rampant. Through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, Janet Catherine Berlo engages with troubling and sometimes confusing categories of inauthenticity. Based on decades of research as well as interviews with