Zig Jackson
China Basin District (Entering Zig's Indian Reservation)

China Basin District (Entering Zig's Indian Reservation)

© 1997 Zig Jackson

China Basin District (Entering Zig's Indian Reservation)
China Basin District (Entering Zig's Indian Reservation)
ArtistMandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Nation, born 1957
CultureMandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Nation
Titles
  • China Basin District (Entering Zig's Indian Reservation)
Date1997, printed 2019
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 16 1/4 × 20 in. (41.2 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 18 1/8 × 22 1/16 in. (46 × 56 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by W. Temple Webber III
Object number2022.357
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
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Zig Jackson uses his art as a platform to counter depictions of Native Americans that relegate them to the past, raising awareness about their lives in the present. In his series Entering Zig’s Indian Reservation, Jackson donned the iconic feathered war bonnet and photographed himself beside a custom fabri­cated road sign at different sites throughout San Francisco. Here, Jackson stands in a small patch of grass in the China Basin neighbor­hood while the highway and expansive urban skyline fill the background. Jackson’s sharply attuned satire addresses issues of identity and displacement and raises questions about what is means to occupy and demarcate land.



Provenance[Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson, Arizona]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
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