Teaching Gallery: The Art and Science of Healing: A Guide to the Menninger Collection
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Teaching Gallery: The Art and Science of Healing: A Guide to the Menninger Collection
Braden Conrad-Hiebner, curator
Gallery 319, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This display reconstructs and contextualizes the Menninger Collection, presenting objects that reflect Dr. Karl’s work with Native American communities, his social network of collectors, and themes that guided the collection, interpretation, and exhibition of these objects.
Works of art

unrecorded Southwestern Native American artist
early 1900s–1962

unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
circa 1950

Mabel Yazzie
late 1900s–1969

unrecorded Hopi artist
late 1900s–1967

unrecorded Dzil Łigai Si'án Ndee (White Mountain Apache) artist
late 1800s–early 1900s

unrecorded Hopi artist
late 1800s–1993

unrecorded A:shiwi (Zuñi) artist
late 1800s–1963

unrecorded Acoma artist
late 1800s–1910

unrecorded Potawatomi artist
late 1800s–1963

unrecorded Omaha artist
late 1800s–1993

unrecorded Potawatomi artist
circa 1865

unrecorded Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation artist
late 1800s–early 1900s

unrecorded Hopi artist
late 1800s–1993

Lambert Homer (1917–1972); Dan Simplicio (1917–1969, active 1920s–1950s)
1960

unrecorded A:shiwi (Zuñi) artist
late 1800s–1963

unrecorded A:shiwi (Zuñi) artist
late 1800s–1963

Eddie Tsalabutie (1925–1965)
mid 1900s–1965

unrecorded Chaticks si Chaticks (Pawnee) artist
mid 1800s–1880

unrecorded Siksika (Blackfoot) artist
late 1800s–1965

unrecorded Hopi artist
late 1800s–1969

unrecorded Hopi artist
late 1800s–1999

unrecorded Hopi artist
mid-late 1900s

unknown maker