Old Days Modern Ways
Ken Williams Jr., Arapaho / Seneca / American, born 1983
Inunaina (Arapaho)
Seneca (Haudenosaunee)
2018
Vintage and new glass beads, silk ribbon, porcupine quills, wool, shell, seed pearls, hubble glass beads, brass thimbles, deer hide, brass beads, brass bells, vintage Swarovski sew downs, cow hide latigo, brass rings, human hair, marabou turkey feathers
Overall: 10 1/8 × 8 in. (25.7 × 20.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Virginia and Preston T. Kelsey 1958 Fund
© Ken Williams Jr., photo courtesy Shiprock Santa Fe.
2018.17
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Bag
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Course History
NAS 30.18, Indians Who Rock the World: Native American Contemporary Music, Davina Two Bears, Spring 2019
ARTH 5, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
English 62.05, Horrors of Survival: Modern American Literature, Jamie Godley, Summer 2023
Publication History
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 221, ill. plate no. 152.
Provenance
Artist’s studio; Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to present collection, 2018.
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