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Stephen Mopope (aka Qued Koi)

Native American
(1898–1974)

Mother and Child
circa 1930

Tempura on Paper
20 x 16 in.
Gift of George Wanlass
2023.17

Originally from Montana and the plains just east of the Rocky Mountains, the Kiowa people were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in 1867 where Mopope was born in 1898. Mopope’s artistic skill was recognized early by his tribal community, and later by boarding school reformers who sought to affirm Native cultural artistic practices. Eagle dances, like the one Mopope depicts here, are practiced by a range of Native American nations; for the Kiowa, the dance was a way of lifting their prayers to the Creator god. Mopope’s mother and child image includes a depiction of a cradleboard, which served a similar function to the cradle basket across the gallery.

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