- Artist:
- Momaday, Al
- Title:
- Untitled (Native American profile and buffalo head)
- Description:
- A painting of the profile of a Native American man who is facing left and tilting his head back. There is a feather hanging on a lanyard from the top of his head. His face is painted with blue stripes across his forehead and from his eye down across his cheek. Above him is the head of a black buffalo that is facing the viewer. The buffalo's beard touches and blends with the man's hair. To the left of the man, there is a design of a buffalo-horned helmet shape with a gold path extending from the helmet toward the bottom of the painting. The path has buffalo hoof prints on it.
- Subjects:
- Kiowa (culture or style)
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.497
- Size:
- image: 21 x 15 1/4 in.
- Media:
- Tempera
- Signature:
- Al Momaday (printed, lower right)
- Condition:
- undamaged
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow with an absentee bid from an R. G. Munn auction, Albuquerque, NM, February 5, 1995. This painting was one of twenty purchased at this auction. Auction lot #X33.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Untitled (Native American profile and buffalo head)", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.497.html
Rights
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