Uneasy Welcome

Norman Akers

2014

  • Titles Uneasy Welcome (Proper)
  • Artist Norman Akers, American, Osage Nation, born 1958
  • Medium lithograph
  • Dimensions sheet: 29 × 22 1/2 in. (73.7 × 57.2 cm) image: 18 3/4 × 15 in. (47.6 × 38.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Estate of Clyde W. Oyster, 2019.38, image © Norman Akers
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell; subject is Déaxitchish / Pretty Eagle seated, partial figure, three-quarter view, head facing front. Elements of regalia outlined in red; text annotations in red radiate from figure.
A pair of silver earrings, blossom design with six fluted ovate part with a six petaled top loosely attached and a four petaled bottom soldered on
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.
The blade is a piece of a file 5.25 inches long, curved edge 1.938" wide. This is attached to a handle of alder? cut from a tree about 1.5" diameter with a limb .75 inches in diameter. 11.5b. which serves as a handle. The blade was wrapped in blue and white gingham and lashed with Niblick. Fig 94. cotton fish cord.