EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015


SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN NEW YORK CITY


NYC EXHIBITIONS


CIRCLE OF DANCE ONGOING


INFINITY OF NATIONS: ART AND HISTORY IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ONGOING


FOR A LOVE OF HIS PEOPLE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HORACE POOLAW THROUGH FEB. 15, 2015


GLITTERING WORLD: NAVAJO JEWELRY OF THE YAZZIE FAMILY


NOV. 13, 2014 – JAN. 10, 2016 *THE GLITTERINGWORLD GALLERY STORE, LOCATED WITHIN THE EXHIBITION, WILL COMPLEMENT THE SHOW AND OFFER FINE JEWELRY FOR SALE.


EXHIBITIONS


GLITTERING WORLD: NAVAJO JEWELRY OF THE YAZZIE FAMILY Nov. 13, 2014 – Jan. 10, 2016 East Gallery Glittering World presents the story of Navajo jewelry through the lens of the gifted Yazzie family of Gallup, N.M. – one of the most celebrated jewelry-making families of our time. The silver, gold and stone inlay work of Lee Yazzie and his younger brother, Raymond, has won every major award in the field. Their sister, Mary Marie, makes outstanding jewelry that combines fine bead and stonework; silver beads are handmade by other sisters. Featuring almost 300 examples of con-


temporary jewelry made by several members of the Yazzie family, Glittering World shows how the family’s art flows from their South- west environs and strong connection to their Navajo culture. With historic pieces from the Museum’s collections, the exhibition places Navajo jewelry making within its historical context of art and commerce, illustrates its development as a form of cultural expres- sion, and explores the meanings behind its symbolism.


FOR A LOVE OF HIS PEOPLE: THE PHO- TOGRAPHY OF HORACE POOLAW Through Feb. 15, 2015 West Gallery Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906–84) was born during a time of great change for his people – one year before Oklahoma statehood and six years after the U.S. government approved an allotment policy that ended the reservation period. A rare American Indian photogra- pher who documented Indian subjects, he began making a visual history in the mid- 1920s and continued for the next 50 years. Poolaw photographed his friends and


family and events important to them – weddings, funerals, parades, fishing, driving cars, going on dates, going to war, playing


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baseball. When he sold his photos at fairs and community events, he often stamped the reverse: “A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw, Anadarko, Okla.” Not simply by “an Indian,” but by a Kiowa man strongly rooted in his multi-tribal com- munity, Poolaw’s work celebrates his subjects’ place in American life and preserves an insider’s perspective on a world few outsiders are familiar with – the Native America of the Southern Plains during the mid-20th


century.


INFINITY OF NATIONS: ART AND HIS- TORY IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN Ongoing South Gallery This spectacular, permanent exhibition of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central and South America demonstrates the breadth of the Museum’s renowned collection and highlights the historic importance of many of these iconic objects.


CIRCLE OF DANCE Ongoing Diker Pavilion Circle of Dance is a five-year exhibition that presents Native dance as a vibrant, meaning- ful, and diverse form of cultural expression. Featuring 10 social and ceremonial dances from throughout the Americas, the exhibi- tion illuminates the significance of each dance and highlights the unique characteris- tics of its movements and music.


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