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Bibliographies help scholars find books, but are typically organized according to Eurocentric collection and publication practices. This essay explores the unfinished work of bibliography in finding Indigenous books by taking one subgenre—printed illustrations of Indigenous pipes from the seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth centuries—and considering methods and effects of various Native-centric enumerative strategies. Pipe illustrations are a suitable subject for new bibliographic methods because European print culture firmly associated America’s Indigenous peoples with tobacco and tobacco pipes, and they are prevalent in colonialist imagery. Illustrations document real and representative pipes, and they abound as either the principal subjects or essential elements of diplomatic, ethnographic, and similar images. Indigenous pipe illustrations provide a rich test case for a bibliographic experiment that helps produce new ideas about where books have been and are, and thereby shift our sense of the relationships between colonization, Indigenous agencies, and print technologies. |
