Eufaula Girls

Cara Romero, artist

Cultural affiliations: enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Tribe

born 1977

Eufaula Girls, 2015

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: pigment print (digital inkjet); Epson Legacy Platine paper

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 111.9 x 110.4 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 101.7 x 100.3 cm

Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: T2023.027.02

On display: Simons Gallery

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Soundings: Making Culture at Sea

Bodies of water interconnect with each other and with human narratives and activities across time. In this photograph from the series Water Memories, Chemehuevi artist Cara Romero connects water with creation stories. Great Ocean Woman (Hutsipamamau’u) is the name of the Chemehuevi Creator. Romero also references the 2015 flooding of Muscogee Nation lands in Eufaula, Oklahoma. For Romero, these “photography dreamscapes deal with Native American relationships to water, the forces of man and of Mother Nature.”

Bold Women

This photograph by Cara Romero offers an Indigenous perspective on the manmade flooding of Native lands such as the Chemehuevi Valley, where Romero’s tribe lived. Evoking the Indigenous sacredness of water, the beauty of these two figures counters narratives that justify manipulating lakes and rivers to extract resources and assert domination over the landscape and its displaced Native occupants. Referring also to floods in Eufaula, Oklahoma, this work visualizes the Chemehuevi belief in the innate strength of Indigenous women.