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Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle
Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle
Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle
Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle
Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle
Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle
Buffalo Robe, 2022
Appliqué textile80 1/2 x 57 3/4 in.
204.5 x 146.7 cmSoldFurther images
Buffalo robes were used by Indigenous North Americans both as goods to trade and parchments upon which histories were written. When Wovoka preached that the practice of the Ghost Dance...Buffalo robes were used by Indigenous North Americans both as goods to trade and parchments upon which histories were written. When Wovoka preached that the practice of the Ghost Dance would lead to a mass resurrection–a common theme among radical proto-Christian, anti-colonial prophets–he included in this resurrection the replenishment of the Buffalo herds. For the Pauite, the multiple resources that the Buffalo represented had been decimated by the trade in hides. Wovoka carries with him the memory of a world before colonialism.
Myers is interested in the logic by which African-American soldiers in the American Civil War were termed “Buffalo Soldiers” and sees a parallel between the decimation of the species in North America by the forces of capitalism, and the decimation of other communities under colonialism, slavery, and other forms of oppression.Provenance
Private Collection, Corvallis, OR (JCG)
