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Feathers, Swan16.1/922
Feathers, Swan16.1/920
Feathers, Swan16.1/919
Feathers, Swan16.1/918
Feathers, Swan16.1/917
Feather, Swan16.1/916
Indian with Feather71.134.2

What is Native American art and who is a Native American artist? The artist Fritz Scholder referred to himself as a non-Indian Indian, someone who never felt the pull of two different cultures. With this lithograph series he challenges popular stereotypical depictions of Indians as stoic, noble, pure, and the embodiment of wisdom. Instead, he offers an amorphous human form, showing only a scruffy face with an open mouth, though the hint of a warrior breastplate, the wrapped braids, and the sharply angled feather suggest a Native American identity. The figure’s tightly wrapped blanket and his turned pose seem to reject empathy from the viewer.

Material
lithograph on paper
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Unfired Effigy with Feathers Inserted03.325.12298

Museum Expedition 1903, Purchased with funds given by A. Augustus Healy and George Foster Peabody

Culture
Pueblo
Material
clay
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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String Of Feathers16.1/1882
Feather, Tawix.Ilaku16/6834

THE KWAKIUTL OF VANCOUVER ISLAND. BOAS, FRANZ MEMOIRS, 8, 1909

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw: Tawix.Ilaku
Material
feather
Made in
Tawix.Ilaku, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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