Lightning strikes outside of town during a time exposure of main street in Hominy, Oklahoma.
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Playing a tune with Cherokee fiddler Sam O'Field
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By Anita Fields
Front View
Mask made during the quarantine of 2020. Satin ribbons, four-ply braided beaded streamers, cut and fold Osage ribbon-work, metal sequins, brass bells, plastic pill pouch with cedar. Photo by Tom Fields
By Anita Fields
5’ x 5’, 2019. Wool, satin, thread, hand embroidered, top hat, hackle feathers, image transfer on silk, metal sequins. Facsimiles of archival documents, yarn, beads.
Installation of contemporary Osage Wedding coat and hat reflecting the history and evolution of Osage culture.
The coat and hat are surrounded by deconstructed facsimiles of archival documents depicting the Osage people in a negative light. The documents are reimagined as identifiable Osage patterns and the orthography symbols of Osage language. Photo Tom Fields
Osage ceremonial dinner setting-clay installation.
by Anita Fields
Osage dances head to the arbor during the In-Lon-Schka dances.
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By Anita Fields