Leslie Peacock has joined the Tumblr crowd. Leslie writes about art for the Times. For you gallery-lovers and art snobs (and even for those of you who, like me, don’t know much about art) she’ll be a good one to follow
Buckskin leggings from the Smithsonian
The Indians live at the Ham
The hawk-feather bustle worn by a Quapaw boy in fancy dance has a beaded leather center featuring the image of Mickey Mouse. That one artifact embodies the message of “We Walk in Two Worlds: The Caddo, Osage and Quapaw in Arkansas,” the new permanent exhibit at the Historic Arkansas Museum. As Charlene Wright, the Caddo representative in the team that put together the exhibit, says, “We live.”
So much of what we in Arkansas know about the Caddo, Osage and Quapaw comes from the grave — in the form of pots. When “We Walk in Two Worlds” opens to the public Saturday, March 28, these three tribes that once lived in Arkansas will make it clear they are very much alive. By the exhibit, the tribes invite us to walk alongside them in a historical journey that features the remains of their deep past, sees them warred on, sickened, cheated and pushed off their land, and proves their survival as people whose Native American roots still nourish their identity today.
read the rest of the review, published in the March 26 issue of the Arkansas Times.
