Born on the Hopi Reservation at Oraibi, White Bear was among the first
Indian artists of the Southwest to draw on paper, independent of
ceremonial expression. His style was naive and described as stiff,
reminiscent of cave and kiva wall drawing.
He was a graduate of Phoenix High School, and became an arts and crafts instructor, painter and kachina carver.
In
1899, he was persuaded by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, an ethnologist, to
record Hopi dance rituals with the Kachinas or (showing 500 of 815 characters). |
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