Skip Navigation

Scout Archives

Home Projects Publications Archives About Sign Up or Log In

who stole the tee pee?

who stole the tee pee? is a phrase coined by artist George Littlechild, as a way of asking how contact and coexistence with White culture during the last 300 years has altered Native American traditions and beliefs. Organized by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and Atlatl, an organization that promotes the work of contemporary Native American Artists, this exhibition combines historical artifacts from NMAI's collection and works by living Native American artists to seek answers to this question. The show has four main galleries: changing reservation realities, school bells and haircuts, tolerating tourists, and beyond smoke and mirrors. Each of the galleries includes an introduction explaining its focus (e.g., tolerating tourists talks about the commodification of Indian culture) and "gallery space," a view that presents historical artifacts surrounded by related modern works. The exhibition makes heavy use of mouse-overs and animation to present information, but plainer alternatives are offered: from the index, users can select contemporary artists' names to see their works (albeit by mouse-over), view historical objects selected from a list, and read plain ASCII text versions of all the exhibition label copy. There are also convenient back to main menu links throughout the exhibition to aid the lost.
Archived Scout Publication URL
Scout Publication
Required Software
Language
Date of Scout Publication
December 21st, 2001
Date Of Record Creation
April 7th, 2003 at 4:01pm
Date Of Record Release
April 7th, 2003 at 4:01pm
Resource URL Clicks
4

Internal

Cumulative Rating
0
Add Comment

Comments

(no comments available yet)