Arthur Shilling (1941-1986)

Born on the Rama Reserve, near Orillia, Ontario into an Ojibwa family of thirteen children, Shilling started drawing as a small child and later carved wooden totem poles. Using oil on canvas, he depicted life on the Rama Reserve, where, eventually he built an art gallery to encourage local talent

His life is documented in the film The Beauty of My People (1978).

Zuni Fetish Necklace
“Three strand stone #fox fetish necklace with turquoise heishi beads. Shell, turquoise, onyx, and coral.”
On display at SRJC Multicultural Museum, CA, USA
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

Hopi Wicker Plaque Basket, n.d.
“Polychrome #eagle design in dyed rabbit brush woven around sumac warp with yucca edging.”
On display at SRJC Multicultural Museum, CA, USA (88.029)
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt #BirdsInArt

#ThreeForThursday :
Polychrome #Turtle Figure
Taos or Tesuque artist, 20th c. (105.034)
Polychrome #Dog Figurine
Cochiti artist, 20th c. (78.480)
Polychrome #Rabbit Figurine
Cochiti artist, Mid-20th c. (78.479)
On display at SRJC Multicultural Museum (CA, USA)
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

#TwoForTuesday :
Beaded #Turtle & Beaded #Lizard Umbilical Pouches
On display at Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum (CA, USA)
“Umbilical pouches are created by Plains women when babies are born. The umbilical cord of the newborn is dried & then sewn into the pouch. The pouch may then be then hung on cradleboards or blankets as a protective amulet or hung on a tree to draw spirits away from the child. Lizards represent boys & turtles represent girls.”
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

Honored to have spent time with these two historical Tlingit clan hats currently still at Penn Museum, in the process of being repatriated to Alaska’s Sitka Tribe:
Ganook Hat NA6864: Ganook (The Petrel), early 18th c. (one of the oldest known extant Tlingit hats!)
Maple wood, paint, Opercula shell, fur, hair, spruce root L28 x W27 x H37 cm
Noble Killer Hat NA11741: Killer Whale (Orca), 19th c? (collected 1926)
Spruce wood, paint, abalone shell, human hair L36 x W34 x H27.5 cm
#NativeAmericanArt

#TurtleTuesday :
Wayne Skye (1949-2012, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario: Wolf clan, Cayuga)
Clan Animals on the Turtle’s Back, 1996
Moose antler, steel, adhesive
Carnegie Museum of Natural History display 36182-1
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt
“The nine clan animals of the Cayuga nation stand on the back of the great #turtle. Clockwise from the turtle's head, they are hawk, snipe, wolf, beaver, turtle, eel, deer, heron, and bear (center).”

For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
#Rattlesnake Gorget, 16th c.
Mississippian artist, Tennessee
Carved shell
On display at Brooklyn Museum
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt

#Woodensday :
Dance Mask
Yup'ik artist, Alaska, c. 1900
Wood, pigment, vegetal fiber
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York L.2018.35.100
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt

#Whale Effigy
Chumash (California, West Coast), c.1200-1600
Steatite, shell inlay, 7.1 x 9.5 cm
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1950.51.Ab.9 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/2375/
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt

Autumn Borts-Medlock (K'apovi [Santa Clara Pueblo], b. 1967)
Chaco #Parrot, 2014
Bronze, 30 x 24 x 29 cm
Smithsonian NMAI 26/9343
https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_410480
#BirdsInArt #NativeAmericanArt #WomenArtists

For #Crustmas on #Woodensday:
gamisida długwe' (#Crab Puppet)
Kwakwaka'wakw, BC, Canada, before 1952
Painted wood 11.4x22.9x67.9cm
UBC Museum of Anthropology A6362
http://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/item?keywords=crab&row=25
#FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt
“The Kwakwaka’wakw have a history of puppetry related to their ceremonial feasts.“

#Dog Effigy Basket, 1993
Made by Alice Juan, Tohono Oo' dham (Papago), Tucson, AZ, USA
Spotted on display at Carnegie Museum of Natural History (36067-1 a & b)
#DogsInArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

#FrogFriday :
#Frog Fetish, 1985
attributed to Herbert Davis, Diné (Navajo)
Carved serpentine, inlaid jet/lignite
6 x 4.5 x 5.2 cm
Smithsonian NMAI 25/6126
https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_271998
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

For #Woodensday :
Figure of a wild #boar sow, 1952
Eastern Band of #Cherokee artist
(Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Qualla Boundary, Swain Co, NC, USA)
Carved & polished walnut wood
11.8 x 3.5 x 7 cm
Smithsonian NMAI 25/6978
https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_272862
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

#AmericanIndianAirwaves welcomes John Kush of the #Chumash community to discuss the upcoming international #IndigenousArt exhibit #DecolonizeNativeArt (D.N.A.) with #art from #IndigenousArtists across Turtle Island

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/decolonize-native-art-international-exhibit-in-the-chumash-nation
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #FirstNations #NativeAmericanArt #NativeAmericanArtists #DecolonialStruggles

Happy #WorldWalrusDay!
Egevadluq Ragee (Inuit, 1920-1983)
#Walruses at Play, 1964
Stonecut print, 45/50, 21 x 28.5 in
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/WALRUSES-AT-PLAY/4B4F94FDAF7D3A2F
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt

For #WorldDolphinDay :
Ben Houstie (Pacific NW Coast, Heiltsuk Nation, b.1960)
#Dolphins, 2000
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 in.
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Dolphins/95D96F364BBB2A28
#FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

These graphite ledger drawings by Chris Pappan are part of the Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains at the National Museum of the American Indian. They are from 2012 absolute masterpieces which continue a century old American Indian ledger drawing tradition. #chrispappan #nativeamericanart #graphite #ledgerdrawings