The Chief Is Dead, Long Live the Chief

Artist Glazer-Danay, Richard (born 1942)

Date2005

Mediummixed media, plastic, feathers, beads, leather

Dimensions13 1/4 × 16 1/2 × 9 in. (33.7 × 41.9 × 22.9 cm)

ClassificationsNATIVE AMERICAN

Credit LineGift of Ric Glazer-Danay and Gayle Glazer

Object number2017.18

Descriptionreproduced animal skull on white, plastic hard hat; four beaded, green & brown, floral decorations on all four sides of hat; main animal skull on top of hat with large, greyish teeth and canine ones at front; inside mouth of skull is small, human skull bust, wearing Native American Plains headdress; on top of larger skull is small reproduction of longhorn steer skull with brownish horns, sticking out both sides; above longhorn skull is small reproduction of antlered deer; white dreamcatcher intertwined in longhorn skull and horns; on back side of large skull and front side of dreamcatcher is brownish ram’s head skull with symbol on forehead; five strands of white leather attached to bottom of dreamcatcher with black & white round beads and feathers attached to tops & bottoms of each strand;

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