... Who Owns History?
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Inunaina / Tsistsistas / American, born 1954
Inunaina (Arapaho)
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Northern Plains
Plains
1992
Metal sign
Overall: 24 1/8 × 17 5/16 in. (61.2 × 43.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Monroe A. Denton Jr., Class of 1968
© Edgar Heap of Birds
MIS.2003.25.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Mixed Media
Research Area
Native American
Mixed Media
Native American: Plains
On view
Inscriptions
Sticker at top of sign: THESE WORDS COME FROM A 1930 HISTORIC / PLAQUE NEAR THE FORT PITT MUSEUM IN / POINT STATE PARK. Sign: FORT PITT / VICTORY / DESTINY / ANGLO SAXON / SUPREMACY / WHO OWNS / HISTORY?
Course History
SART 17, Collage, Esme Thompson, Fall 2012
NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013
SART 17, Collage: Bridging the Gap, Esme Thompson, Fall 2013
NAS 35, ENGL 32.01, Native American Literature, Melanie Benson Taylor, Spring 2019
NAS 32.01, ENGL 53.02, Indian Killers: Murder and Mystery, Melanie Benson Taylor, Spring 2019
NAS 30.19, Indigistory, Gordon Henry, Fall 2019
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
New Humanisms, Art History 5, Winter 2020, Mary Coffey, Associate Professor of Art History, Chad Elias, Assistant Professor of Art History, Teaching Exhibition, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, January 18, 2020 – March 15, 2020.
Publication History
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Hightlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. p. 55 and p. 170, no. 133.
Provenance
Monroe A. Denton, Jr., Brooklyn, New York; given to present collection, 2003.
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