Indian on Mission Bus, 1994 from the series Indian Man in San Francisco
Zig Jackson, Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara / American, born 1957
Numakiki (Mandan)
Minitari (Hidatsa)
Sahnish (Arikara)
Plains
1994
Gelatin silver print
Image: 12 5/8 × 19 3/16 in. (32.1 × 48.7 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Stephen and Constance Spahn '63 Acquisition Fund
© Zig Jackson
2019.9.2
Geography
Place Imaged: San Francisco, United States, North America
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Native American
Photograph
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed, in black ink, on reverse, bottom edge left to right: "Indian. Man in San Francisco" series Indian Man on the Bus.94. Zig Jackson Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara
Label
Zig Jackson’s sharply comic placement of his headdressed chief in various places around the city is just as awkward as it is normal, working to assert belonging and the right to move freely throughout San Francisco, the country, or the world. When speaking on his series Entering Zig’s Reservation, also shot in the city of San Francisco, Jackson said: Why do I have to go and photograph Indians on a reservation? Why can’t I be my own Indian on my own reservation? So I came up with the idea of Zig’s reservation. I would occupy different areas, for example, Golden Gate Park. They were going to build a ballpark in China Basin, which was an area with lots of homeless people, and they were going to make them move. So I took my sign and I put it up there . . . and the cops gave me fifteen minutes to move, so I went to City Hall and I occupied the grounds of City Hall with my sign. — Zig Jackson From the 2019 exhibition Portrait of the Artist as an Indian / Portrait of the Indian as an Artist, guest curated by Rayna Green
Course History
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II and III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2019
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, 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 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
Exhibition History
Portrait of the Artist as an Indian / Portrait of the Indian as as Artist, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Hoof Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 22, 2019-February 23, 2020.
Provenance
The artist, Savannah, Georgia; sold to present collection, 2019.
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