%0 Journal Article
%T Circulating Regalia and Lakˋ車ta Survivance, c. 1900
%J Arts | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8040146
%X This essay offers object biographies of two examples of Lakˋ車ta beaded regalia that traveled with Wild West performers to France in 1889 and in 1911, respectively, as exemplars of Gerald Vizenor＊s concept of survivance. By examining the production of the objects by women artists within the Lakˋ車ta community and visually analyzing their designs, this article highlights the regalia as an opposition to both settler colonial political suppression and enforced attempts of cultural assimilation. The article stresses that the beadwork＊s materiality bears traces of its intended circulation and public display that are enacted when Lakˋ車ta individuals wore the regalia in the context of Wild West performance in France. Both when rooted in the Lakˋ車ta community and when circulating through Wild West shows, the objects evince Lakˋ車ta survivance. When the regalia was acquired by non-Native individuals in France, who projected new meanings onto the objects, the function of the regalia as a public statement of Lakˋ車ta survivance subtly continued to operate through generated revenue for the community and through the visibility of Lakˋ車ta culture through continued circulation. View Full-Tex
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/4/146