Joe – An Etching

Known as Tekahionwake, which means “The White Wampum”, E. Pauline Johnson wrote and performed her poetry and was well-published in her lifetime, authoring several collections in handsomely bound editions. Johnson’s subjects touched on Native American life of the era. Poems by this author accompanied paintings in the Mead Art Museum’s Rotherwas Room. Johnson wrote several poems on paintings and etchings that reveal her strong interest in visual narrative and imaginative interaction with art.

Text courtesy of the Amherst College Collection of Native American Literature. Read the full text.