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Why Was The Red Leader Played by Trevor Howard in Brownface in Windwalker or Did Directors Assume Only White People Could Carry a Movie with Lines in the Cheyenne Language in 1981?
Why Was The Red Leader Played by Trevor Howard in Brownface in Windwalker or Did Directors Assume Only White People Could Carry a Movie with Lines in the Cheyenne Language in 1981?
Why Was The Red Leader Played by Trevor Howard in Brownface in Windwalker or Did Directors Assume Only White People Could Carry a Movie with Lines in the Cheyenne Language in 1981?

Why Was The Red Leader Played by Trevor Howard in Brownface in Windwalker or Did Directors Assume Only White People Could Carry a Movie with Lines in the Cheyenne Language in 1981?

Artist (Onondaga Nation and Mi’Kmaq, First Nations; born Buffalo, New York, 1945)
Date2018
Medium35mm film trailer, red and white leader, and silver braid
DimensionsOverall: 19 × 10 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (48.3 × 26 × 26 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of the Aloha Club to the Aloha Club Collection
Object number2018.1.2 A-B
DescriptionTail basket made of braided film and decorated triangular ornaments made of red film. Bands of white film leader wrap around the center and the top.
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