| All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture is an exhibition catalogue produced by the National Museum of the American Indian for the All Roads Are Good Exhibition on view at the Smithsonian museum from 1994 to 1998. Twenty-three Indigenous artists, scholars, curators, storytellers, and Elders from the Americas were selected by the museum to comment on the collections held by the museum. These individuals were asked to comment on the importance of the material culture objects that related to their cultural traditions. Their selections from a wide range of objects such as weavings, ceramics, baskets, clothing, rattles, and shields formed the basis for the exhibition and book. Their memories, stories, community history and interpretations form the chapters in the book. Each selection contains colour images of the objects, background information and personal perspectives on the cultural heritage of the Nation and culture region. Tom Hill, former curator of the Woodland Museum, provides his perspectives about Iroquoian fine crafts and art pieces such as beadwork, silverwork, and the gustoweh (men's headdress). The book contains 100 colour images and 50 black and white archival photographs. This is a valuable general reference about Indigenous cultures and values as expressed in past material culture objects and contemporary Aboriginal perspectives. |
