Sam Durant : scenes from the Pilgrim story : myths, massacres, and monuments

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Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Nov. 7-Dec. 22, 2006.; Includes essay: On legitimizing the body politic : America's founding myth reconsidered / Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds.
Contents: Curator's foreword / Jeffrey Keough -- On legitimizing the body politic : America's founding myth reconsidered / Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds -- Exhibition plates -- Pilgrims and Indians, planting and reaping, learning and teaching -- Making history (Plymouth National Wax Museum) -- Subject/position/object/placement (Pilgrim monuments: Massasoit, Metacomet and Plymouth Rock) -- Exhibition checklist -- Appendix -- White mirrors -- Plymouth Rock -- Pilgrim myths and realities -- King Philip's War -- Forefather's Rock -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments