Remembering Our Sisters, MMIW, Bonneville Salt Flats

Eugene Tapahe

2020

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Basket, Apache people, Pima people, Native American, grass fibers and vegetal dye
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.
Black and white photograph with four Native American women wearing jingle dresses and face-covering bandanas, standing apart on wooden boardwalk, clouds in background
Awl, snow shoe. A round iron blade with a rounded edge, c. 7/32" diam. 2.5"long. fastened in a round handle with 6 grooves around it. 6.25" long. Used to cut round holes for thongs. Maggie said once it was used to cut grooves like those around the eyes in totems. Chief Kadonaha's.