This exhibition explores the meanings of the unique nineteenth-century "artist's book" that was recently discovered among the holdings of Houghton Library at Harvard University. This ledger contains seventy-seven colored drawings created by a number of Plains Indian warriors, illustrating their most outstanding feats in wars against both U.S. forces and tribal enemies. Wiyohpiyata puts these images into context by placing them in dialogue with other objects and images from the Peabody Museum's ethnographic collections, some of which are said to have been collected from Sitting Bull. The exhibition will be open indefinitely.

This winter, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts opened the exhibition Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, on view through March 28, 2010. A total of 144 works on display from the private collection of John and Marva Warnock exemplify the craftsmanship and beauty of these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American Indian objects. On view are beaded tobacco bags, weapons, dolls, cradles, war shirts, dresses, and more, many of which have never been on display prior to this exhibition.

Zurich's Nordamerika Native Museum reopened early this year after having closed its doors for renovations in August 2008. Inaugurating the new space is a retrospective of the work of Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), artist and illustrator of the American Indian world, who accompanied Prince Maximilian of Weid on his expedition into the heart of North America in 1832. Karl Bodmer: Ein Schweizer Künstler in Amerika brings together, for the first time, all eighty-one copper etchings produced from the drawings and watercolors that the artist created during his travels. It also presents a selection of previously unseen Native American works brought back by Maximilian.

The Afrika Museum presents a thematic exhibition on spirituality in the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, specifically Brazil, Great Britain, Cuba, Curacao, Haiti, Surinam, and the U.S.; different countries and different generations. Created largely by priests famed in their homelands, the remarkable works on view include suspended boats with luminous spirits, the mysterious sculptures of Haiti's mysterious Bizango society, ghosts in bottles, paintings with magic signs and strange apparitions. Roots and More: Journey of the Spirits is the first exhibition of its kind in the Netherlands and in Europe. Never before has there been an exhibition with such a topical focus on the spiritual wealth that Africa has offered and continues to offer to the world.

The Colorado State University Art Museum opened its doors to the public for the first time earlier this spring. As the first art museum to grace the university's campus, CSUAM features 3,800 square feet of display space and will host temporary exhibitions as well as showcase the museum's 3,000-piece permanent collection, which consists primarily of African art. The new museum is currently presenting several inaugural shows, including African Art from Colorado State University Collections, on view until September 18, which features a multitude of works from West and Central Africa.

A selection of silkscreen prints and photographs of Abelam paintings, artists, and architecture produced by anthropologist J. Anthony Forge is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Originally captured by Forge in the mid-twentieth century, the images were first shown at New York's Museum of Primitive Art in 1960 as part of the exhibition Three Regions of Melanesian Art, and will be on view in the Met's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing through the end of this year.

Santa Fe will host the eighth annual Historic Indian & World Tribal Arts Show on August 13–16. Now back at its original location in Santa Fe's Eldorado Hotel, the show will feature forty distinguished dealers offering fine art and artifacts from North America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Central and South America, and the ancient Mediterranean.

After three years of temporary installation at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Whitehawk Antique Shows have found a new and permanent home at the Santa Fe Community and Convention Center, located in the center of downtown Santa Fe. Featuring over 18,000 square feet of display space and providing improved accessibility, the new venue will host Whitehawk's 26th Annual Antique Ethnographic Art Show on August 14–16 and its 31st Annual Indian Art Show on August 18–19. Check back in early August for more information on both of these important events.

Persona. Ritual Masks and Contemporary Art is a temporary exhibition based on the theme of identity as examined through the mask, in both the literal and figurative sense. The installation features some 180 masks, chiefly African in origin, over 100 of which are extracts from the collections of the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale in Tervuren. The remainder are from Belgian private collections and four allied European museums: the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, the Ethnography Museum of Stockholm, the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini in Rome, and the Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque in Binche (Belgium).

On the island of Java, the theater tradition of wayang kulit, which employs flat, elaborately painted, carved, and perforated leather shadow puppets to relate cultural tales, has been practiced for centuries. An exhibition devoted to the art of this ancient tradition, entitled Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia, is on view at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe through March 14, 2010. The installation features a full gamelan ensemble as well as a full set of more than 200 gold- and bronze-leafed, Surakarta-style shadow puppets from the museum's permanent collection.