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DIRECTOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am deeply grateful to Curator of Native American Art and Associate Professor
of Anthropology Joanne Mack for organizing this exhibition and publication.
Shortly after arriving at the University of Notre Dame in 1997, Dr. Mack became
fascinated by the Father Lindesmith collection of Native American art at the
university’s Snite Museum of Art. Since that time, she has been indefatigable in
researching Lindesmith, his collecting, the documentation accompanying his 1899
gifts to Notre Dame, and the subsequent distribution of portions of the collection
to a private individual.
I marvel at what Dr. Mack and her undergraduate students have discovered about
the man and his collection, and what the information they have found tells us about
nineteenth-century Native Americans and Euro-Americans vis-à-vis the myth of
the American West.
Dr. Mack’s research was greatly facilitated by the archive staffs at Notre Dame
and the Catholic University of America as well as by that at the Congregation
of the Holy Cross U.S. Province Archives Center. The Smithsonian Institution’s
National Museum of Natural History generously shared a half-dozen important
Lindesmith-acquired works for this exhibition and provided photographs of them
for inclusion in this book. We are especially grateful to that museum’s registrar,
Susan Crawford, for her assistance.
Dr. Mack and I appreciate the fine essays prepared by former Notre Dame fellow
Bethany Montagano and by Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History curator Candace Greene, as well as the
contributions made by editor Phil Freshman and assistant editor Susan C. Jones,
both of Minneapolis.
The Snite Museum exhibition team skillfully insured, assembled, designed, and
installed the exhibition. Therefore, I wish to thank Associate Director Ann Knoll,
Registrar Rebeka Ceravolo, Exhibition Designer John Phegley, Exhibition Coor dinator
Ramiro Rodriguez, and former Staff Photographer and Digital Archivist Eric
Nisly for all their efforts.
Neither the exhibition nor this book would have been realized without funds from
the Humana Foundation Endowment for American Art, which was established
through the vision of Mr. William C. Ballard, Jr.
— Charles R. Loving
Director and Curator, George Rickey Sculpture Archive
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
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