MS 4883 Posters from the Indian Court in the Federal Building at the Golden Gate International Exposition
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4883
name: label: Creator
content: Siegriest, Louis Bassi, 1899-1989
label: Creator
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)
place: label: Place
content: San Francisco (Calif.)
label: Place
content: North America
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The provenance of the collection is unknown.  It is possible that the two sets of posters were received from different sources.
creator: label: Creator
content: Siegriest, Louis Bassi, 1899-1989
label: Creator
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
culture: label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Haida
label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Pomo
label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Seneca
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content: MS 4883 Posters from the Indian Court in the Federal Building at the Golden Gate International Exposition
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Louis Bassi Siegriest (1899-1989) was an American painter and commerical artist based in California.
label: Historical Note
content: The Golden Gate International Exposition (1939=1940) was a World's Fair celebrating "Pacific Unity" and the opening of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Posters (color silkscreen, 25 x 36 inches; 12x 18 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4883
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Posters
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Posters
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of posters created for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition.  The posters were created as part of the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).  The designs were adapted by Louis Siegriest from work produced by indigenous artists. The artists who contributed resource material received limited recognition for their work; some remain unknown.  

Siegriest created eight (8) posters for the Indian Court exhibit.  This collection includes one complete set of all eight (8) posters and one (1) explanatory label, and one incomplete set of seven (7) posters.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art holds the Louis Siegriest papers and an Oral history interview with Louis Siegriest.