For Zitkála Šá Series (For Buffy Sainte-Marie)

© Raven Chacon. Image courtesy of Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. For educational purposes…

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Artist/Maker Raven Chacon (Navajo, born 1977)

Date2020

MediumLithograph

DimensionsSheet: 11 × 8 9/16 in. (27.9 × 21.7 cm) Frame: 18 3/4 × 14 7/8 × 2 in. (47.6 × 37.8 × 5.1 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, The Edward W. Root Class of 1905 Memorial Art Purchase Fund

Object number2021.8.1.4

Not on view

DescriptionInstructions for performance by Raven Chacon: For Buffy Sainte-Marie Assign your voice and two instruments each to one of the three lines. Also assign any meaning, effect or parameter to those lines. Perform the lines, stepping up the effect or parameter at the indicated intervals. Take a voluntary or involuntary break in the middle. The meaning or parameters of the lines may change after the break.

Collections

Native American Art

Additional Details

Provenance 2021: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts.

Markings Stamp: ochre Crow's Shadow Press chop on verso at lower left;
Stamp: ochre Printer's chop on verso at lower right.

Signature Signed on verso at lower right in pencil.

Inscribed "FOR BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE" at upper right in ochre ink;
"7/20" on verso at lower left in pencil;
"CSP20-105" on verso at lower left in pencil.