Chii – Navajo, Yuchi, Chippewa Anishanabe (from the series Mixed Indian)
Artist
Vicki Monks
(American, Chickasaw, born 1952)
Date2010
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 15 × 13 in. (38.1 × 33 cm)
Support: 19 × 13 in. (48.3 × 33 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 19 × 13 in. (48.3 × 33 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Shlenker Block Fund of the Houston Jewish Community Foundation, 2012
Object number2011.25
DescriptionHead and shoulders of boy in an outdoor setting wearing a buttoned-up, blue, collared shirt, his brown hair in loose tendrils around his face, runny nose.eMuseum Notes
This portrait of Chii, a boy of mixed Native American heritage, was made when the artist found him along on a dirt road outside a Yuchi tribal burial ground. An elder lady had passed away, one of the last of a handful of fluent Yuchi speakers who had been close to Chii’s mother. Chii’s solemn expression marks the gravity of this loss, perhaps hinting at an understanding that goes beyond his years.
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