Indifferent | Yale University Art Gallery

2017

Not on view

Featuring characters from Ponca stories, Julie Buffalohead’s collage depicts a scene of serious play, satirizing clichéd and romanticized perceptions of Indigenous people. Coyote, a Ponca trickster figure, rests in a lawn chair, indifferent to the antics of the motley crew of animals below her. Wily and unruly, yet wise, Coyote is known for her irony and holds within her the contradictions of the world.

Medium: Acrylic, ink, graphite, and collaged on Lokta paper
Dimensions: sheet (3 sheets joined): 29 7/16 × 58 3/4 in. (74.8 × 149.2 cm)
framed: 34 × 63 1/2 × 2 in. (86.4 × 161.3 × 5.1 cm)
Credit Line: Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund
Accession Number: 2018.155.1
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: Ponca
Period: 20th century
Classification: Drawings
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Provenance

Artist's collection

Bibliography

"Selected Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 131, ill

Katherine Nova McCleary, Leah Tamar Shrestinian, and Joseph Zordan, Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2019), 180, no. 81, ill

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art, collages

Subject

Arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas Women artists

Signed

Signed and dated on verso

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