Anhinga feather loose fan with hackle trim / Warren White

Essay/Description

Anhinga feather loose fan, with 20 feathers, with hackle trim in black, green, yellow, red, and turquoise with shoe polished white leather extensions. A shotgun rod is used for the removable handle. It is covered in gourd stitch beadwork in cut and seed beads in white, maroon, red, orange, green, blue, navy, and yellow on a mauve background. Below the beaded handle are beaded red triangular flaps of buckskin above 24 white 2-ply twisted buckskin fringes. One fringe is decorated with four chrome beads.

Curatorial Remarks

20th century loose feathered fan with hackle trim. Anhinga is the water bird. Attached to the leather fringe are four metal beads.

Tags: Anhinga feathers, loose feathered fan, loose feathers, beadwork, peyote fan, Native American Church
People: Warren White
Places: Oklahoma
Purpose: peyote meeting

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

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Anthropology Item Information

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Title(s):

Anhinga feather loose fan with hackle trim

Creator(s):

Warren White (Artist)

Harding Big Bow (Used by)

Culture:

Native American; Kiowa

Date:

20th century

Place:

Oklahoma

Materials/Techniques:

feathers (anhinga), hide, glass, cotton

Classification:

Ethnographic Objects

Object Type:

Fan

Credit Line:

Gift of Pearl Big Bow

Accession No:

84.2898

Previous Number(s):

TL1997.73.5

Department:

Anthropology

Not On View

Dimensions

Overall:

Length: 28 1/2in. (72.4cm)
Width: 14in. (35.6cm)

About the Creator(s)

From Gilcrease Museum:

Creator:

Warren White

Role(s):

Artist

From Gilcrease Museum:

Creator:

Harding Big Bow

Biography:

Mr. Big Bow was a roadman and organizational leader in the Native American Church, having served as the President of the Native American Church of Oklahoma. He was also an easel painter in the Kiowa style. He was the co-organizer of the exhibition project that became "Symbols of Faith and Belief: The Art of the Native American Church" alongside Gilcrease Senior Curator at the time Daniel Swan. After his death, his wife Pearl Big Bow gave his NAC equipment and other objects to Gilcrease Museum. Mr. Big Bow's life work, and art are described in various publications, especially Dan Swan's (1999) "Peyote religious Art", Jackson: University of Mississippi; (1990) Southern Plains Indian Museum and Crafts Center: Symbolic Paintings by Harding Big Bow, Anadarko.

Role(s):

Used by

From Getty's Union List of Artist Names:

Names (all):

Big Bow, Harding

Birth Date:

1921

Death Date:

1997

Nationalities:

Native American

Roles:

Kiowa painter and flute maker, 1921-1997

Gender:

male

Cite this Page

White, Warren. Anhinga feather loose fan with hackle trim. 84.2898. 20th century. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/842898 (10/31/2018).

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