Indians of North America -- Pictorial works
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Ledger Drawings
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4448
Abstract:
Ledger drawings created by Oglala Lakota artist Dwayne Wilcox, 2008-2018. The collection includes 48 titled drawings, which appear in his book, Visual/Language: The Ledger Drawings of Dwayne Wilcox (Staunton, Virginia: George F. Thompson Publishing, 2021), edited by Karen Miller Nearburg. One drawing has an inkjet print affixed to its recto. The collection also includes nine untitled drawings on versos, which are probably preparatory drawings for other work.
Dates:
2008-2018
William Wildschut papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2386
Abstract:
Photographs, writings, clippings, and other material related to Wildschut's study of North American Indians. Includes 64 photographs, most of them portraits of Native Americans, primarily Crow Indians, including Plenty Coups and Two Leggings. Other photographs are of encampments, ceremonies, medicine bundles and other objects, the grave of Two Leggings, cavalrymen at the monument at Little Bighorn, and Wildschut handing Marshal Ferdinand Foch a portrait of Plenty Coups. There are eleven...
Dates:
1878-1927
John Willis Collection of Lakota Art
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4447
Abstract:
Drawings and inkjet prints of drawings created by Lakota artists, 2008-2017, as well as art produced by others related to protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, 2016-2019. Artists represented in the collection include Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy, III, Quinton Maldonado, Joe Pulliam, and Dwayne Wilcox. It includes 25 original drawings as well as 20 inkjet prints of drawings. More than half of the works created by the artists integrate ledger paper. Six...
Dates:
2008-2019
John Willis photographs
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4516
Abstract:
The collection documents Willis’ career as a photographer from the 1970s through 2019. It contains approximately 20,000 film negatives and corresponding contact prints. Photographs by Willis include black and white 35mm negatives, medium format 6x6cm, 6x7cm, 6x17cm negatives, and large format 4x5”, 5x7” and 8x10” negatives and contact prints for all images published in Recycled Realities and Views From the Reservation, as well as...
Dates:
1880-2019, bulk 1980-2019
Photographs of Dakota Access Pipeline Protests in North Dakota
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 186
Abstract:
Photographs created by John Willis during six trips from September through December 2016 that document a resistance movement based near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, and eastern edge of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation protesting against the Energy Transfer Partners project to construct a petroleum pipeline known as the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at the site and through North Dakota and South Dakota as well as across Iowa into Illinois. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe led the protest with...
Dates:
2016
Photographs of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and the Mexican-American Border Region
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 213
Abstract:
Photographs created by John Willis and printed as 98 inkjet color prints that document sites chiefly at South Dakota and the Mexican-American Border Region as well as Nebraska and North Dakota in 2018-2019, although predominantly in 2019.
Dates:
2018-2019