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Maker(s):Willis, John
Culture:American (1958 - )
Title:The Mass Gravesite at Wounded Knee, from The Massacre of 1890
Date Made:2002
Type:Photograph
Materials:gelatin silver print
Place Made:United States; South Dakota; Pine Ridge Reservation
Measurements:sheet: 20 in x 23 7/8 in; 50.8 cm x 60.6 cm; image: 18 in x 21 7/8 in; 45.7 cm x 55.6 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Singed, dated, and titled on verso: John Willis c. 2002/ The Mass Gravesite at Wounded Knee, from The Massacre of 1890
Accession Number:  SC 2015.16.3
Credit Line:Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art

Description:
two dogs sitting in a grave yard surrounded by a fence and arch with a cross on top; graves are decorated with flowers and stone patterns, marked with painted wooden crosses and some tomb stones; sticks vertically stuck in ground with cloth tied around the top. Grave, gravesite, graveyard, tombstones, crosses, dogs, animals.

Subjects:
Photographic gelatin

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