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
June 11, 2013–July 14, 2013
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
Chimayo rug,
early 1900s–1962
unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
Wide Ruins rug,
circa 1950
Mabel Yazzie
rug,
late 1900s–1969
unrecorded Hopi artist
Tasap (Navajo katsina),
late 1900s–1967
unrecorded Dzil Łigai Si'án Ndee (White Mountain Apache) artist
bowl,
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Hopi artist
plaque,
late 1800s–1993
unrecorded A:shiwi (Zuñi) artist
owl figure,
late 1800s–1963
unrecorded Acoma artist
jar,
late 1800s–1910
unrecorded Potawatomi artist
peyote fan,
late 1800s–1963
unrecorded Omaha artist
rattle,
late 1800s–1993
unrecorded Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation artist
rattle,
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Hopi artist
Honan (badger katsina),
late 1800s–1993
Lambert Homer; Dan Simplicio
tri-partite belt buckle,
1960
unrecorded A:shiwi (Zuñi) artist
cigarette case with rainbow spirit,
late 1800s–1963
unrecorded A:shiwi (Zuñi) artist
bolo tie with fancy dancer,
late 1800s–1963
Eddie Tsalabutie
concho belt,
mid 1900s–1965
unrecorded Chaticks si Chaticks (Pawnee) artist
otter skin necklace,
mid 1800s–1880
unrecorded Siksika (Blackfoot) artist
parfleche,
late 1800s–1965
unrecorded Hopi artist
Kaletaka (warrior katsina), ??,
late 1800s–1969
unrecorded Hopi artist
Rügan (corn dancer katsina),
late 1800s–1999
unrecorded Hopi artist
sipikne (Zuñi warrior katsina),
mid-late 1900s