Object number2022.9

My Winter Count

Date1999

Artist Lynne Allen (Lakota (Teton Sioux), born 1949)

CultureLakota (Teton Sioux)

MediumSilkscreen with lithograph Chine Collé

EditionEdition 12 of 40

DimensionsImage: 26 1/4 x 38 in. (66.7 x 96.5 cm)
Sheet: 27 3/4 x 39 1/2 in. (70.5 x 100.3 cm)
Mount: 32 1/2 x 45 in. (82.6 x 114.3 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, signed lower right in pencil: Allen

InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower right corner in pencil: 99; lower left corner: 12/40

MarkingsOn recto, blindstamped lower right corner: cc[second c faces left and interlocks at the ends with the first c]

BibliographyJosephine Waggoner, Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian’s Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas, ed. Emily Levine, foreword by Lynne Allen. Omaha, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. ProvenancePurchased directly from the artist

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DescriptionA black figure and a brown figure visible from the waist up stand in front of a table with a moccasin, cowboy boot, spur, and two women's' shoes, a line of text at the bottom reads "My Winter Count." In the background and in the figures is various dense and overlapping text, dates, and drawings of Native Americans, arrows, and horses, all overlapping and in various colors.

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