DAN’S PAPERS
danshamptons.com
January 18, 2013 Page 33
BOOK REVIEW
ART EVENTS
A critical look at the art of Arthur Carter
Openings, closings, see and be seen.
Tonanash Tarrant: 10,000 Years and Counting Memorial Day 2013. Its significance, she adds, is that speaks of “wampum” as “the life giver” because shellfish “were a huge part of the ancient Native “our people will tell our story.” The museum (David Martine, director), established American diet.” She smiles—she’s still learning her in 2001 on Shinnecock property, is a separate entity own history. Myths persist, she says, such as the from the reservation. It is “the only Native American claim that because some Shinnecock “don’t look Indian,” they’re not. Her reply? “You can’t have owned and operated, nongovernmental, not-forprofit” organization on Long Island “dedicated to someone else tell you who you are.” For years a volunteer at the cultural center, honoring the Ancestors and living history.” The Tarrant knows her way around the East exhibits at the museum span various End, having gone to school here. But time periods. Many of the displays have she has also traveled to Central America to do with hunting and fishing, but there as part of LIU Global (formerly Friends are also bronze sculptures, paintings World Program). Politically minded, and murals depicting the history as she focused her studies on indigenous well. The Shinnecocks traveled in the communities and came to appreciate region, intermarrying with other tribes how art and craft were at the center of and ethnic groups, but they kept their cultural inquiry. The colors and patterns ceremonial traditions. Tarrant’s wampum of a Shinnecock headband, for example— jewelry exemplifies their distinctive arrows in a sunburst design that is history. Wampum, she notes, does not gradually sequenced—are symbolic of mean money, though it is commonly sunrise and sunset. Of course, genes will defined that way because wampum was Artist Tonanash Tarrant out: Tarrant comes from an artistic family of used by Europeans in barter and trade. For the indigenous Eastern Woodlands people painters, glass blowers, welders, weavers—her great themselves, wampum had significance as sacred grandmother Edith Thunderbird, the wife of Chief shell beads used in rites. Replicas, such as the shell Thunderbird, did superb loom work. Tarrant, always ornaments Tarrant makes, reflect the coloration of encouraged to pursue the arts, is now encouraging clam and whelk shells, which had different hues due her own two children to do so. to different mineral content in the water. Lore has Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum, 100 it that the word itself, “wampum,” is a shortening of an earlier word “wampumpeag,” which derives from Montauk Highway, Southampton. Open Thurs.–Sat. Narragansett meaning white shell beads. Tarrant 11 a.m.–4 p.m., 631-287-4923 shinnecockmuseum.com
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ames Keith Phillips won the first Dan’s Papers prize for nonfiction with his entry “Magic Shirts” last year. Phillips, a member of the Shinnecock Nation, wrote about his ceremonial beaded shirt. He talked about its magic, now meet Tonanash Tarrant, the artist who beaded it. Tarrant, whose mother is Shinnecock and father Hopi/HoChunk, wears many hats at the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum—office manager/ administrative assistant, crafts artist, tour guide, newsletter editor and proud all-around resource. A ceremonial dancer since the age of five, she does beading for the regalia worn by powwow dancers. Some of her work is on display at the museum, including baby moccasins made with beads stained a slight purple and barrettes made with sweet grass, found in abundance before the “contact.” That’s the word Native Americans use to refer to the arrival of whites on their shores. For sure, contact changed the Shinnecock way of life, “a history that goes back 10,000 years when our people inhabited this area.” It’s a history that is largely erased for many Americans, even for the descendants of the original Nation. The mission of the cultural center and museum is to educate the public, including those who live on or near the Southampton reservation. Central in this effort, Tarrant says, will be the Wikun Good Gathering Place & Living History Village, which will open on
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