TALK AT THE MET ON THE PLAINS INDIANS EXHIBITION

If you are in New York and want to visit the Met - get there for Thursday April 9th and you will hear Judith Ostrowitz give a lecture on the exhibition she curated called: The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky.Thursday, April 9, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Judith Ostrowitz, Research Associate, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, MMA
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Show location on map

Valise

Artist: Nellie Two Bear Gates (Mahpiya Bogawin, Gathering of Clouds Woman)
Date: 1903
Geography: United States, North or South Dakota
Culture: Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Medium: Commercial and native-tanned leather, glass beads, metal
Dimensions: 9 1/2 × 15 in. (24.1 × 38.1 cm)
Classifications: Textiles-Beadwork, Beads-Containers
Credit Line: Collection of Berte and Alan Hirschfield

Pair of Cuffs

Date: ca. 1925
Geography: United States, Iowa
Culture: Meskwaki
Medium: Cotton cloth, glass beads, native-tanned leather
Dimensions: Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) Length: 13 7/8 in. (35.2 cm)
Classifications: Textiles-Costumes-Accessories, Beads-Costumes
Credit Line: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Purchase: the Donald D. Jones Fund for American Indian Art and gift of the Svacina Family (2002.1.A,B)

Rattle

Artist: Dana Claxton (Canadian, born 1959)
Date: 2003
Geography: Canada
Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux)
Medium: Four-channel video
Classification: Variable Media-Video
Credit Line: Dana Claxton and Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

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