Matching Small Pox Suits for All Indian Families After U.S. Gov’t Sent Wagon Loads of Smallpox Infested Blankets to Keep Our Families Warm (from the series Paper Dolls for a Post Columbian World)
Artist
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
(American, Citizen of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, MT, born 1940)
Date1991
Mediumxerographic print with watercolor and pencil
DimensionsSupport: 17 x 11 in. (43.2 x 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Lucy R. Lippard, 1999
Object number1999.15.301.7
DescriptionImage of two paper dolls with pink, black and white spots, text reads "Matching smallpos suits for All Indian Families after U.S. gov't sent wagon loads of smallpox infected blankets to keep our families warm".eMuseum Notes
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith’s complete set of Paper Dolls for a Post
Columbian World with Ensembles Contributed by US
Government includes a
doll for each member of the
Plenty Horses family:
Ken, Barbie and their
son Bruce. This set
of dolls was the artist’s
ironic response to
the 500th anniversary of
the arrival of
Christopher Columbus in the
Americas. The use of
xerographic copies,
with hand color
applied, allowed the artist to make multiple versions of the paper doll family for widespread
distribution. The controversial 1992 celebration of the Columbus Quincentenary
prompted many exhibitions, symposia and articles reevaluating the myth of
discovery and the consequences of contact to the indigenous people and environment
of the Americas.
On View
Not on view
Mariana Yampolsky
printed 1947
