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There are many differences between the qualities of art and art-making in European American or European influenced women's cultures from those in Native American cultures. Some of the art the Europeans Americans consider "museum worthy", was o ....

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... and displayed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. To European Americans they were honoring the Native American culture. According to the book In Her Own Image, "women artists have been silenced, lost hidden, or neglected through the centuries, that is in large part because they have lacked an audience aware of their existence or willing to consider their work". (page xxv) Although that statement is true, I don't think it ever occurred to the author that maybe Native Americans do not want nor do they feel the need an for audience in order for their art to be of value. To Native Americans their art is spiritual, meaningful and made as ...