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Artist/Maker
Wendy Red Star
(Apsáalooke, born 1981)
Date2025
MediumGlass
DimensionsOverall: 5 × 6 × 6 in. (12.7 × 15.2 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, William G. Roehrick '34 Art Acquisition and Preservation Fund
Object number2026.10.6
Not on view
DescriptionFrom the Trade Bead Market Ledger:
Skunk, or “eye,” beads were manufactured in Europe as early as the 1730’s and quickly gained popularity across the Great Lakes, Upper Missouri, and Northern Plains. Their dotted “eye” motif gave them an aesthetic premium over plain stock. These beads appear in personal adornment, gift exchanges, and fur-trade transactions as mid-range decorative currency.
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Exhibition History
"Wendy Red Star | One Blue Bead", Sargent's Daughters, March 6-April 18, 2026.
Wendy Red Star
Date: 2023
Medium: Acrylic, graphite, kitakata paper, coated pastel paper
Object number: 2024.20.1-4
Ozioma Onuzulike
Date: 2023
Medium: Earthenware and stoneware clays, ash glazes, recycled glasses and copper wire with 4,770 ceramic palm kernel shell beads
Object number: 2024.19
Wendy Red Star
Date: 2016
Medium: Lithograph with inkjet print
Object number: 2016.18
Date: c. 1870-75
Medium: Leather with dentalium shells and trade beads
Object number: 1984.456
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: date unknown
Medium: Terracotta
Object number: INV.542