Red-winged Blackbird, Purple Poppy Mallow
- ink on tyvek
- Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez
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Not For Sale
Purple Poppy Mallow
Callirhoe involucrata (Torrey & A. Gray)
Pȟežúta naŋtíažila (Lakȟóta)
According to Linda Black Elk, “The smoke of the dried root” of this plant is used by the Lakota to “‘bathe’ or waft over aching body parts, and is inhaled for head colds” (“Culturally Important Plants of the Lakota”).
Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus)
Wábloša (Lakȟóta)
The Lakota word literally translates as “wings of red,” and its various calls and songs each have their own Lakota meanings, as if, like the meadowlark, this ubiquitous bird of the Plains also speaks Lakota. Its “wings of red” also seem to be a favorite image for contemporary Native poets. Muskoke poet Joy Harjo describes them as “the beauty of scarlet licked with yellow” (“The Myth of Blackbirds,” in The Woman who Fell from the Sky). Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan writes of a red-wing keeping “vigil on a cattail”: “He opens his wounds, a sleeve of fire” (“Porcupine on the Road to the River,” in Seeing Through the Sun).
For this collection, the artist would like to acknowledge the following people:
Thomas Gannon, Associate Professor, English and Ethnnic Studies, UNL for writing the accompanying texts. Sofía F. Echeverry for her work as studio assistant.
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombo-American, mid-career artist with an interdisciplinary practice. She grew up in Colombia as the child of a Colombian and a United States citizen and migrated to the US as an adult. Her art is about the curious and intense experience of having physically migrated, yet still having a piece of herself rooted in Colombia. She is creating an intersectional feminist visual novel that is a multifaceted project comprised of paintings, sculptures, objects, and mixed media that together—and in different voices—weave a synchronicity of dialogues, passages, and punctuations about hybridity and cultural ownership.
- Created: June 2021
- Inventory Number: 20V.741.2021
- Current Location: University of Nebraska Lincoln - Enterprise Technology at Nebraska Hall - 1400 R St Lincoln, NE 68588 (google map)
- Collections: 1. New Acquisitions, University of Nebraska Lincoln