Authors/Publishers Ned and Jody Martin  

Jody and Ned Martin traveled the West for over 15 years gathering data for their books on horse gear. Ned set up his portable photo studio in museums and private collections to capture the stunning images of the cowboy or Indian horse equipment they were currently researching. The Martins have ridden horses in many Western states, Europe, and South America, where they gained first-hand knowledge of horse gear being used. Ned has traveled widely to photograph not only collections for these books, but also for his previously published work of portraits of old people, Faces and Lines, in collaboration with writer, Dan Brown. He currently uses state-of-the-art digital camera equipment. They anticipate publication of their next book, Bridles of the Americas in 2009.

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Winfield Coleman, who contributed a chapter, as well as many commissioned pieces of original art for the American Indian Horse Mask book,graduated from Cornell, Harvard and New York University. Since receiving National Endowment for the Humanities grants in 1978 and 1979, he has concentrated on Plains Indian art and culture. Although his primary contacts are among the Cheyenne, he has also done research among the Arapaho, Kiowa, Saulteaux, and Blackfeet. He managed tribal art galleries in NYC, Santa Fe and San Francisco. From 2002 to 2005, he was Curatorial Assistant for the AOA Department (Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas) at the Cantor Art Center, Stanford University. He has published a number of articles on the art and culture of Plains Indians, and illustrated museum catalogs and ethnographic and folkloric books. Since 1979 he has been a frequent presenter at the Plains Indian seminars in Cody, WY. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Solin, and continues work as an independent researcher and artist.

Email: winfield1@mindspring.com