Culture Making Articles items tagged native american Culture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Copyright (c) 2025, Andy Crouch ExpressionEngine tag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02 Mountain Chief of Piegan Blackfeet, 1916 tag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.996 2025-01-02T22:53:00Z 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Andy Crouch andy@culture-making.com

Nate

: ?Although in this case the phonograph horn is used for recording, this photo's nonetheless an interesting visual precursor to the famous Maxell tape ad. Meanwhile, Wikipedia says that the Piegan Blackfeet these days live mostly on the larger Blackfeet Nation in northwestern Montana.?
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"Mountain Chief of Piegan Blackfeet making phonographic record at Smithsonian," 9 February 1916, posted at Shorpy Photo Archive :: via FFFFOUND! :: first published here 30 October 2008
]]> Shapeshifter, by Brian Jungen tag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.1722 2025-01-02T22:53:00Z 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Andy Crouch andy@culture-making.com Nate: ?What's not to love about a whale skeleton crafted from the bones of our ubiquitous white plastic patio furniture? The artist's other work also remixes modern artifacts to reenvision traditional First Nations/Native American forms and patterns: golf-bag totem poles, baseball-mitt warriors. Jenkins' show Strange Comfort runs through next summer at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.?
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"Shapeshifter," white polypropylene plastic chairs (2000), by Brian Jungen, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa :: via Brainiac
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