America’s Early Artists, at the Met

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Some of the earliest surviving art by native North Americans left America long ago and some of those wondrous painted robes, embroidered slippers and feathered headdresses tinkling with chimes have come back home. Representing 130 pieces on loan from more than 50 international collections.

Review: ‘The Plains Indians,’ America’s Early Artists, at the Met

This show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes about 130 pieces of some of the earliest surviving art by Native Americans.

NYTIMES.COM|BY HOLLAND COTTER