1988.124.McD Ceremonial cloth (pua sungkit)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The center of this pua sungkit depicts twelve dragons or serpents (naga/ nabau) which are coiled around or whose bellies are filled with trophy heads.
1983.134 Headhunter's jacket (baju kirai)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The back of this jacket (or war vest) displays several rows of figures and designs. The figures represent a pairing of the protective deity Indu Dara Tinchin Temaga, the daughter of the god of war, and a kneeling male.
1983.128 Ceremonial cloth (pua) withi Jugah's jawbone (rang Jugah)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The enigmatic design of this cloth is known as rang Jugah, or "Jugah's jawbone." While no weaver still remembers who Jugah was, the jawbone design is known to symbolize a severed trophy head taken in battle.
2007.15.62 Clara McDonald Williamson, Ropin' the Range
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
NOTES
Object file has been reviewed
TMS record has been reviewed.
No education file for Williamson found.
1946.11 Clara McDonald Williamson, Get Along Little Dogies
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, the route of the cattle drives between Texas and Abilene, Kansas, between 1867 and 1884, forms the basis of a "memory picture" for "Aunt Clara," as the artist was affectionately called by the Dallas art community. Largely a self-taught artist, she was born and raised in Iredell, Texas.
1944.13, Fred Darge, Survival of the Fittest
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Survival of the Fittest captures the clarity and heat of the West Texas landscape as well as the precarious existence of its inhabitants. In this meticulously detailed scene, a roadrunner and a snake face off in a climate beset by death a
1942.4, Jerry Bywaters, On the Ranch
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Jerry Bywaters was an important voice in the arts in Texas, having trained in Dallas and in the East with Robert Vonnoh, Bruce Crane, and John Sloan.
2015.53 Jerry Bywaters, West Texas Town, Adrian
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This painting exemplifies Jerry Bywaters’ mastery of regionalist landscape painting using his observations of expansive West Texas. As early as 1934 he traveled to the area and other parts of the Southwest in search of artistic inspiration.
1940.17, William Lester, Cypress Fen
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Regionalist painter William Lester developed an iconography of the Southwest that reached far beyond simple observation of nature.