Déaxitchish / Pretty Eagle
Object Label
Wendy Red Star’s 1880 Crow Peace Delegation series features the artist’s notations about Native heritage, history, and identity, handwritten on reproductions of Charles Milton Bell’s photographs of Crow leaders. The original photographs were taken during a historic meeting of the Crow delegation with the U.S. government in Washington, DC, in 1880, to negotiate the expansion of the Northern Pacific Railroad through the Crow reservation. Shortly after, these photographs began to circulate as part of a stereotyped, commercialized, and flattened understanding of Native American leadership.
The artist’s notes elucidate the meaning of various costume elements, educating non-Indigenous viewers while commenting on white Americans’ ignorance of Native American culture. Red Star also includes information about each chief: anecdotes of bravery, personal details, and a note about how Pretty Eagle’s body was kept for seventy-two years at the American Museum of Natural History, a potent institutional critique.
This series includes five additional portraits of these five leaders; for more information, visit www.wendyredstar.com.
Caption
Wendy Red Star Apsáalooke (Crow), born 1981. Déaxitchish / Pretty Eagle, 2014. Inkjet print, each panel: 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., 2018.19.4a. © artist or artist's estate
Gallery
Not on view
Gallery
Not on view
Artist
Title
Déaxitchish / Pretty Eagle
Date
2014
Medium
Inkjet print
Classification
Dimensions
each panel: 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D.
Accession Number
2018.19.4a
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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