- Artist:
- Watchetaker, George Smith "Woogie"
- Title:
- Comanche shield dancer
- Description:
- A painting of three Native American dancers facing left and dancing in a single file line, painted on orange mat board. Each dancer is distinctly different, but all three are wearing body paint, lower-back feather bustles, breechclouts, bands of bells on their calves and dance moccasins. They are each holding a spear decorated with feathers in their right hand and a decorated shield in their left hand. The dancer on the far left is wearing a war bonnet and the other two dancers are wearing different versions of roach headdresses.
- Subjects:
- Comanche (culture or style)
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.295
- Size:
- image: 20 x 24 in.; framed: 31 x 35 in.
- Frame:
- Wood (plant material); Brown (color); Trimming (decorative material); Cream (color)
- Media:
- Tempera
- Signature:
- Watchetaker (printed, lower right)
- Condition:
- undamaged
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow from the Oklahoma Indian Art Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK, January 1981. On a sticker on the dust cover: "'Shield Dance' by George 'Woogie' Watchetaker; tribe Comanche; 20" X 24" 1980 Tempera."
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Comanche shield dancer", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.295.html
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