Tonto’s TV Script Revision
Artist
Larry McNeil
(American, Tlingit/Nisga’a, born 1955)
DateCreated 2008, printed 2022
MediumPigment print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 20 in. (34.3 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 17 × 21 1/2 in. (43.2 × 54.6 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 1/2 in. (50.8 × 62.2 cm)
Support: 17 × 21 1/2 in. (43.2 × 54.6 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 1/2 in. (50.8 × 62.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Clinton King Purchase Award, 2022
Object number2022.20.1
DescriptionHorizontal composition of a room with seven men dressed in Western wear. At right is a low chest on which sits a basin, a framed photograph of Larry McNeil holding a camers, and photographic equipment. Above it are four framed photographs of Native American families. A man dressed as the TV character Tonto (wearing a headband, a fringed jacket, and a holster) is holding the head of another man over the basin, as if preparing to dunk him. Standing at an angle behind him is a man dressed as the TV character The Lone Ranger (wearing a black mask over his eyes, white cowboy hat, black gloves and holding a pistol in his right hand and a script in his left hand) who appears to hold a gun toward a man representing Edward Curtis. In the far right background are an oil lamp, a picture of Raven by Larry McNeil, and architectural details.On View
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