A32 Artist Unknown, poster announcing Art Peau-Rouge d’aujourd’hui, 1935. Tempera on paper, 20 in. x 13 in., Inst-209. Gift of the Toyota Motor Corporation, 1992, courtesy of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Based on the style and subject matter, this poster was almost certainly painted by Steven Vicente (Nehakije, Jicarilla Apache, ?–1949). It depicts two men painted with birdlike spots and crowned with eagle feathers, surrounded by a bower of cottonwood branches. As their bent arms and swinging kilts suggest, they are participating in a Jicarilla Apache ceremonial relay race held for young men who have reached puberty. Vicente incorporated other aspects of the subject in a pair of paintings, Apache Races and Races, reproduced as Plates 5 and 28, respectively, in Bernstein and Rushing.
