T. C. Cannon (1946–1978, Caddo/Kiowa), Two Guns Arikara, 1974–77. Acrylic and oil on canvas. Anne Aberbach and Family, Paradise Valley, Arizona. Copyright 2019 Estate of T. C. Cannon. The exhibition “T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America,” organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, runs April 6 to Sept. 16, 2019, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Photo by Thosh Collins.
Baleen is the soft, hair-like structure on the upper mouth of whales, such as the humpback whale in this photo, which allows them to trap prey in their mouth.
Credit: Ari S. Friedlaender/University of California, Santa Cruz under NOAA permit
Installation view of Arthur Jafa,“Love is the Message, The Message is Death,” 2016 in “The Message: New Media Works”at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2017. Courtesy of Arthur Jafa and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/ Rome. Photo: Cathy Carver
The Native Art Market offers a unique shopping opportunity for visitors to purchase traditional and contemporary works—including silver and semiprecious jewelry, ceramics, fine apparel, handwoven baskets, traditional beadwork, dolls, paintings, prints and sculpture—by some of the finest Native American artists. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian.
