"Durham's symbolic recoding of the imagery of modern America in the terms of its native Indians is interesting in relation to Joseph Beuys's use of Indian iconography for purposes of symbolic retribution. As a modernist, Beuys assumed his work...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
A girl in a beaded dress and head covering stands with her arm in front of a tree trunk. In her hand she holds a cloth. She may be Bagobo Moro (a Muslim tribe from the western coast of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands). Since the World's Fair in...
A man wearing a turban sits on a camel, probably in Festival Hall at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds a stick, and is seated behind what appear to be a pair of drums. A man with a walking stick wearing a turban and white robe...
A row of men in loincloths dance behind one another, banging on metal drums. Handwritten twice at bottom of photo: Igorata Wedding Dance. The Igorots come from the Cordillera region, in the Philippines island of Luzon; since the World's Fair in St....
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; North Africans; Indigenous peoples; Men; Clothing & dress; Turbans
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a man wearing a silk turban, embroidered vest, collarless shirt, sash, and white cloth stands holding a staff. He may be a Nubian (from North Africa). Such "living displays" were intended to...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Forging; Furnaces
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a Mexican man wearing a sombrero, probably Jesus Tobano, sits on a plank connected to a piece of machinery; he is holding onto two ropes and his feet are resting on two spools of copper wire. In front of...
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, an Ainu woman in a robe and scarf bends down to greet Lorenza, a Tehuelche woman (from Santa Cruz, Argentina) wearing a string headband who is sitting on the dirt ground wrapped in a blanket in which she...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indigenous peoples; East Indians; Tibetans; Clothing & dress; Headdresses; Elephants
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, fifteen Tibetan and North Indian men stand in a row in front of two elephants and an archway to a temple, with two other men (one apparently Caucasian and wearing a cap and jacket; the other wearing a...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Copper; Forging
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, five men take turns hitting copper with mallets; they are hitting the metal which a sixth man, who is kneeling, is holding onto a block with tongs. Five of the men are wearing white sombreros. The men are...
