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Luta Makphya 1824 - 1905, necklace of Sioux Native American man, Nebraska

2010, feathers, porcupine quills, rope plant, real size

 

When we visit museums illustrating the history of man, often do not reflect on the objects that once were owned by other people, and which are now on display at the museum. The jewelry, clothes and utensils, were people like us have gone on this earth, they were children, fathers, mothers, old people like our grandparents, people who experience life as we now dead and put on display. This work is to reflect on the extermination of the Native Americans, as memento funeral, taking on the characteristics of the object from the museum closed in glass case. In this case, the deceased was called Luta Makphya, and it was a Sioux who lived in Nebraska.
In memory of a people who lived closely contact with nature.