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Collected Item: “Represent like Elvin Fourfeathers!”

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Represent like Elvin Fourfeathers!

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Screenshot

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This photo was posted on the Social Distance Powwow Facebook page. Fourfeathers’s face seems to hold a thought captive. Was he going to say something to the photographer? What is he thinking? Would I even understand as a non-Indigenous person? What do the different pieces of regalia represent? Did the photographer take this pre-pandemic but posted now lamenting the loss of tribal gatherings? So many questions to such a beautiful photograph. You keep on representing Elvin. Teach us all.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Elvin Fourfeathers, represent, regalia, powwow

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10224567611288860&set=g.832568190487520

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Whitney Rencountre

Give this story a date.

2021-04-17
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