Horse Mask
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.The design for this traditional horse mask came to Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty in a dream. She recalled, “The designs were very vivid . . . I immediately sketched out what I had seen, and I had a strong feeling that this piece had to be made. When things come to me like this, I really try my best to make them like I saw them, to honor the design. Sometimes the meanings are unclear to me when I am working, but later they make sense.”
Artwork Details
- Title: Horse Mask
- Artist: Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty (Native American, Assiniboine-Sioux, born California, 1969)
- Date: 2008
- Geography: United States, California
- Culture: Assiniboine-Sioux
- Medium: Native-tanned leather, porcupine quills, glass beads, turkey feathers, wool cloth, brass buttons, brass rings, silk ribbon
- Dimensions: 21 5/8 × 29 in. (54.9 × 73.7 cm)
- Classification: Hide-Costumes
- Credit Line: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (267046.000)
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing