Handed Down - Nevada Arts Council

Dedicated to the Memory of
Steve Kane (apprentice Paiute-Shoshone singer)
Manuel “Popeye” McCloud (master Paiute singer)
Blanton Owen (founder of the Nevada Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program)
This catalog accompanies an exhibit of the same name at the Nevada State Museum,
on display from May 20, 1999–April 30, 2000.
Cover photos (clockwise from upper right): Angie McGarva and her daughter
Canika; Abayomi Goodall and the Children of the Diaspora African Musical Ensemble;
Diane Ohata-Sims; Jesse Windriver and Adam Fortunate Eagle; Larry and John Schutte
(Fortunate Eagle photo by Blanton Owen, all others by Andrea Graham)
Title page photos (clockwise from upper right):
Ukrainian Pysanky by Zoria Zetaruk; leather stamping by Spider Teller (background
photo); willow winnowing tray by Virginia Sanchez; willow water jug by Emma Bobb
(Teller photo by Blanton Owen; all others by Andrea Graham)
This publication is a project of the Nevada Arts Council and the Nevada State Museum,
with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and
the Nevada Humanities Committee.
© 1999 Nevada Arts Council. This web edition was made possible with funding from
the National Endowment for the Arts, © 2011 Nevada Arts Council. New publication
design by Kunder Design Studio of Reno. Special thanks to volunteer Genevieve Lillskau
for transcribing the text from the original printed version and retrieving the original
images from the Nevada Folklife Archives for digitization for this edition.
Nevada Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs
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