Recovering Ancient Spiro: Native American Art, Ritual, and Cosmic Renewal Edited by Eric D. Singleton and F. Kent Reilly III (HC)

Recovering Ancient Spiro

Dear Museum, If you are asking me how easy it was to get the book from you, it was totally easy and your sales group was totally excellent. -- If you are asking me about the book I bought, the great catalogue of your great show, "Recovering Ancient Spiro", although I lhave always lived -- ninety years -- in snotty, provincial New York City, I have known for eighty years the greatness of the Spiro site, the tragedy of its original looting and the triumoph of re-collecting its great works over the decades. Therefore I visited the site fifty years ago. ThereforeI I gloried in your glorious book, thorough and excellent in all its approaches, aspects and presentations -- including the many plates of contemporary Indian art. (Yes, Indian, and not current Woke sustitutes. As my best Indian friend and housemate for two yesrs, the late poet and Chaucer scholar Carter Revard frequently said and wrote, "I'm Osage. We're Indians. I wish you highbrows in Massachusetts and New York would stop trying to impose new, goofy names on us".) -- Spiro was the findsput of the three greatest known Indian sculptures of humans, all three of which are in your catalogue. Excellent! The greatest work of art in the State of Oklahoma is "the American Indian Lucifer" in the U. of Oklahoma's museum. Congratulations and Thank You! New York to Oklahoma: All Hail! ! (Prof.) Francis B. Randall

Great reading!

Great information. Book will become a collector item.

excellent history

I’m obsessed with Spiro and had to miss the exhibition but treated myself to the book. It’s a wonderful presentation of important history. Wado!