Continuation

Unrecorded Meskwaki artist

Choker

1880-1905
side stitch glass seed beads, brown cotton thread, hide
Museum purchase with funds provided by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
2019.2.102
About the Artist

Unrecorded Meskwaki artist

Historic or customary items (such as the ones in this exhibition) were separated from their original makers and communities, resulting in a difficult, challenging history of collecting and exhibiting Native art. An unintended anonymity within Native art has occurred because the names of artists were not recorded at the time their art was collected. Past anthropologists and collectors were more interested in acquiring the items; the artists’ names were not a priority for them. Despite this error in judgement, these artists were known by his/her/their community. We acknowledge this relationship in our text labels that read “unrecorded artist of”.

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