The Four Worlds, Art Heals, The Grand Tetons National Park

Eugene Tapahe

2020

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Black and white photograph of four Native American women wearing jingle dresses and face-covering bandanas, blurred Mount Rushmore in background.
Made of red flannel trimmed in black with a bird and a floral design done in white opal yellow, navy blue, blue, light blue metallic gold, dark green and yellow green and myrtle green; brown beads of small size; the bird is in now wise symmetrical, wings sprawled out, feet to one side and head twisted to the other; there is a heart in beads on the breast.
Monoprint comprised of four adjoining sheets of paper; imagery includes winding line, plant forms, ovals and stacked ovals, and groups of repeating hash marks.
Horizontal painting with procession of walkers, only lower half of legs shown; abstracted patterns typical of parfleche paintings form walking path beneath their feet.