Arthur & Shifra Silberman Native American Art Collection
The Arthur & Shifra Silberman Collection focuses on Native American art and artists. The collection is in two primary parts: works of art and the archives. The archival component contains research files, correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, exhibition research, and photographs. The images found here are art and photographs from the collection.
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- Arrival at St. Augustine, Fla.
- "Around 5:00 P.M. [May 21, 1875] they arrived in St. Augustine...Still in irons, the new arrivals waded through the throng of townspeople anxious to see, hear, or touch the so-called 'savages.' They were escorted to several horse-drawn conveyances, which carted them through the plaza. The prisoners drew their blankets over their faces to hide from the bystanders gawking at the procession." - from Brad D. Lookingbill's War Dance at Fort Marion (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), 55.; Kiowa artist also known as Zotom and Paul Caryl Zotom, ca. 1853-1913
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- Book showing costumes of different tribes drawn by an Indian artist, Mrs. D. B. Black (1890-95)
- pairs with 1996.017.0509a
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- Buffalo Hunt
- Medium: Pencil, crayon, ink
