"Sacred Objects and Sacred Places combines native oral histories, photographs, drawings, and case studies to present current issues of cultural preservations vital to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Complete with commentaries by curators, native peoples, and archaeologists, this book discusses the repatriation of human remains, the curation and exhibition of sacred masks and medicine bundles, and key cultural compromises for...

An introduction to collecting Indian relics, covering such topics as where to hunt for them, how to identify them, how to clean, mount, display, and catalog them, and how to restore broken artifacts.