Author: Pickering, Robert (and) F. Reilly (and) Barry Tayman (and) Tony Lopez (and) Skyler Liechty (and) John Adams (and) Duane King (and) George Fuld (and) Bruce Arnold (and) Frank Goodyear
Title: Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America
Description: Tulsa, Gilcrease Museum, 2011. Hardcover. Black fabric boards with the title in silver lettering across the front cover and down the spine. There is a matte color-illustrated dust jacket, with the title in embossed metallic red lettering on the front cover and down a black spine. There is a mylar jacket. The free and pasted end pages are a bright orange. Pages: (7), viii-ix, (1), 1-118. Profusely illustrated with full-color and true-tone images. "'Peace and friendship.' This noble phrase, emblazoned on the back of silver peace medals given by American presidents to chiefs of important tribes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represents an ideal of interactions between American or European governments and Native American tribes. This book presents the stories of people and events behind the medals." Contents are as follows: Searching for the stories behind the medals / Robert B. Pickering -- Displaying the source of the sacred : shell gorgets, peace medals, and the accessing of supernatural powers / F. Kent Reilly III -- Tomás Prieto's al Mérito Spanish Indian peace medals / Barry D. Tayman, Tony Lopez, and Skyler Liechty -- The Indian peace medals of Louis XV / John W. Adams -- British medals depicted in Cherokee portraits of 1762 / Duane H. King -- Washington oval peace medals / George J. Fuld -- French donative medals of Louis Philippe I / Bruce W. Arnold -- Keokuk's peace medals : mirrors onto a fractured era / Frank H. Goodyear III. VG+/VG+ .

Keywords: Coins and Stamps ; Indian Peace Medals ; ;


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