Object number:
2010.54.16384
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
They Made Us Many Promises...
Date made:
Circa 1973
Material / Technique:
Screen print on paper
Dimensions:
H: 20 in, W: 25.875 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 printed on beige paper. At the top is "-They Made Us Many Promises, More Than I Can Remember But / They Never Kept But One. They Promised To Take Our Land / And They Took It.-" in brown. At the bottom is a green shaded area with a battle scene showing men in blue fighting and killing North American Indians, printed in brown. At the bottom left is "massacre at Wounded Knee - December 29, 1890" in brown.
Concepts:
gun; North American Indian; fight; massacre; land; battle
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