America's Weekend
Visualizing Power: Plains Pictographic Art
Friday, April 3–Saturday, April 4, 2009
Ledger books, rock art, and buffalo robes, stunning examples of Native American pictographic arts, offer the warrior’s perspective on life in the West. What stories do they tell? What can we learn from them? What significance do they have for Native peoples today? Explore with us current understandings of plains pictographic arts, how they changed after contact with non-Natives and exposure to written documents and new materials.
This seminar expands on themes presented in the Peabody’s new exhibition Wiyohpiyata, which features a newly discovered Lakota ledgerbook from the mid-nineteenth century. The program accompanies the Peabody Museum's new exhibition Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West, (opens April 3) and focuses on the many dimensions of Plains pictographic art, from Crow Rock art to name glyphs to ledger book narrative art.
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