Object number:
2010.54.1190
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
America needs Indians
Maker:
Saichi Kawahara
Date made:
1969
Material / Technique:
Screen print on paper
Dimensions:
H: 26 in, W: 20 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster has a black background with a large pink circle in the center. In the circle is an outline of a native american chief's head. In green script around the circle is, "America Needs Indians." [In September of 1965 the Committee Theater in San Francisco began hosting a multimedia experience (slides, music, movies, native dancers) called "America Needs Indians" by Stewart Brand and Ken Kesey. Brand described the experience as "a peyote meeting without peyote." -LMC]
Concepts:
North American Indian
Places:
United States of America
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