Navajo blanket with a big “Geo. Herriman” woven into the traditional-style design. Note says it was commissioned in 1910.
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Might be inspired by Krazy Kat and George Herriman’s interest in Navajo art if one wanted to reach for meaning in surrealist history?
#KrazyKat comic from 1918 where the Black Kat has their tail curled to “pass” as a pig
Tail uncurls in the rain, they’re found out, and white Ignatz mouse (as usual) hits Krazy with a brick 🧱
Interesting because Herriman was Black Creole from #NewOrleans who passed for white and would have known all about hair straighteners
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