CURRENT EXHIBITION
Tipi of the Great Plains
September 18, 2009—January 10, 2010
This exhibition examines how the tipi was the primary means by which Plains people organized their lives, families, and communities, and how it remains an essential architectural form for celebratory and ceremonial occasions. It will offer new perspectives about this familiar icon of the American landscape by examining the tipi as a complex cultural tradition that permeates Plains tribal identity and the arts. Drawing from the Brooklyn Museum’s significant holdings of Plains material and supplemented by loans from other institutions and artists, as well as works specially commissioned for the project, the exhibition will include three furnished tipis, one of which visitors can enter. Each tipi will serve as the focal object for specific themes within the exhibition, which will include 150 additional objects.
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