Frontline Aunty, Henry Payer

Artwork Overview

Henry Payer, Frontline Aunty
Henry Payer, Frontline Aunty
Henry Payer
Frontline Aunty
2022
Henry Payer
Cultural affiliations: Ho-Chunk Nation of Nebraska
born 1986
Frontline Aunty, 2022
Material/technique: mixed media; collage; ledger paper
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 48.26 x 40.64 cm
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 22 3/4 x 16 5/8 x 1 1/8 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2024.0002
Not on display
Add to portfolio

If you wish to reproduce this image, please submit an image request

Images

Label texts

Native Fashion
“Frontline Aunty represents our female relatives who continuously surprise us with their courage, strength, and determination as born leaders… Most Indigenous cultures were matriarchal, but this changed with colonization as non-Natives married into tribes. She stands fist raised, wearing both traditional and modern clothing, red paint on her forehead, and a multicolored ribbon skirt… She adorns both traditional moccasins and street shoes to express the act of walking in two worlds.”—Henry Payer

Exhibitions

Native Fashion
, curator