Yesterday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a promised gift of 91 Native American artworks from collectors Charles and Valerie Diker. The donation succeeds 20 objects the Dikers have given to the museum over the past two decades. Significantly, the museum states that the art will be displayed in the American Wing, as previously indigenous works from the United States were sequestered in the Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas galleries.
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Joseph No Two Horns, (He Nupa Wanica), shield (Hunkpapa Lakota, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, 1885), | Dirk Bakker
Unrecorded Arapaho artist, attributed to “Henderson Ledger Artist A,” also known as Horseback, “A Medicine Vision” (Arapaho, Oklahoma, 1880), pencil, colored pencil, and ink on paper | Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
Unrecorded Yup’ik artist, dance mask (Yup’ik, Alaska, 1900), wood, pigment, vegetal fiber | Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
Unrecorded Tlingit artist, dagger (Tlingit, Alaska, 1750) | Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
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