TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

Established by an act of Congress in 1989, the Smithsonian s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and the arts of Native Americans. The museum s collections span more than 10,000 years and - as this lavishly illustrated miniature volume demonstrates - include a multitude of fascinating objects, from ancient clay figurines to contemporary Indian paintings, from all over the Americas.