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"THE BEAT GOES ON"
OR
"ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER"
GOUACHE ON BOARD
PAINTING
BY PROLIFIC NATIVE AMERICA ARTIST
LEE ROY JOSHUA
DATED 1973
Joshua, Lee
Place of Birth: Holdenville, OK
Date of Death: October of 2001
Tribe(s): Creek, Seminole
Biography:
Lee Roy Joshua is a cousin of the internationally renowned painter Jerome Tiger. Lee's brother Edmond Joshua, Jr. is also a renowned Indian artist. when Jerome Tiger died in 1967, his mother expressed her wish that someone in the family would continue Jerome's work of artistically recording the Creek & Seminole cultures. Lee was thus inspired to become more serious about his own artwork & pursue a career as a painter.
Lee works in watercolor, tempera & prints. Lee has exhibited in numerous Museums & Art shows including the Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa, OK), the All American Indian Days (Sheridan, WY), the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonials (Gallup, NM), the Trail of Tears Art Show at the Cherokee National Museum (Tahlequah, OK), the Creek Indian Council House & Museum (Oklmulgee, OK), the Seminole Nation Museum (Wewoka, OK) & the Oklahoma Historical Society Museum (Oklahoma City, OK). In 1992, Lee participated in the Franco-American Institute Exhibit in Rennes, France.
Lee has won numerous awards for his artwork at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market (Phoenix, AZ), the Scottsdale National Indian Art Exhibition (Scottsdale, AZ) & the Five civilized Tribes Museum (Muskogee, OK). Lee has been honored as an Artist of the Month at the Governor's Gallery in the Oklahoma State capitol (Oklahoma City, OK). Lee's artwork is featured in numerous private & public art collections such as The Heritage Center, Inc. Collection (Pine Ridge, SD).
Lee died in October of 2001, but his many paintings will always be a reminder of Lee's talent.
LARGE WORK
DEPICTS AN AGED MAN
AN ELDER PLAYING ONE LONE DRUM
HE IS WRAPPED IN A CHIEFS BLANKET
SURREAL IMPRESSIONISM
THE WOODEN FRAME MEASURES 26.5" X 32.5"
THE WORK IS LOOSE FROM THE MATTE
THE BOARD MEASURES 17.5" X 23.5"
PURPLES AND GREENS AND TURQUOISE
WONDERFULLY ETHNIC
HOME OR CABIN DECOR
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FYI
A pow-wow (also powwow or pow wow) is a gathering of North America's Native people. The word derives from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning "spiritual leader". A modern pow-wow is a specific type of event where both Native American and non-Native American people meet to dance, sing, socialize, and honor American Indian culture. There is generally a dancing competition, often with significant prize money awarded. Pow-wows vary in length from one day session of 5 to 6 hours to three days. Major pow-wows or pow-wows called for a special occasion can be up to one week long.
The term also has been used to describe any gathering of Native Americans of any tribe, and as such is occasionally heard in older Western movies. The word has also been used to refer to a meeting, especially a meeting of powerful people such as officers in the military. However, such use can also be viewed as disrespectful to Native culture.
There may be many drums at a powwow, especially weekend or week long ones, but each powwow features a host drum which is accorded great respect and the most authority. The members of drum groups are often family, extended family, or friends. Groups are then often named for families, geographic locations, tribal societies, or more colorful names. Many groups display their names on jackets, caps, vehicles, and chairs. Traditionally only men would drum and women would sit behind the men singing high harmonies. Beginning in the mid 1970s, women began drumming with men and seconding, or singing, an octave higher, the song. Today, there are mixed-gender and all-female drum groups.
The supplies a drum group carries include the drum, rawhide headed, a cloth bag for padded drum sticks, the drum stand, folding chairs for sitting, and, in some cases, a public address system. The drum head, stand, microphone stands, and PA box are often decorated with paintings or eagle feathers, fur, flags, and strips of colored cloth.
Readily noticeable in performances are the "hard beats" used to indicate sections of the song. The "traditional method" consists of a pronounced strike by all singers every other beat. These may appear in the first or second line of a song, the end of a section, before the repetition of a song. A cluster of three hard beats (on consecutive beats) may be used at the end of a series of hard beats, while a few beats in the first line of a song indicate performer enthusiasm. In the "Hot Five" method five beats are used, with the first hard beat four beats before the second, after which the beats alternate.
Drum etiquette
To understand drum protocol, a drum may be thought of as a person or being and is to be regarded and respected as such. Drum etiquette is highly important. There are regional variations. The drum is the central symbol of Oklahoma powwows and is located in the center of the dance floor and powwow (which are themselves shaped in concentric circles). Southern drums are suspended by four posts, one for each direction. Northern drums are set up on the outside of the dance area, with the host drum in the best position. Drummer-singers are expected to remain at their drum and ready to sing at any moment's notice; a dancer might approach the drum and whistle, fan or gesture his staff over a drum to indicate his request for a song even if it is not that drum group's turn to sing. In some regions it is considered disrespectful to leave a drum completely unattended. Some drum groups do not allow females to sit down at their drum but welcome them to stand behind the drummers and sing backup harmonies; the reasons for this point vaguely to a variety of tribal stories that attempt to tell the history of drumming as each group understands it. People bring water to the drummers and generally assist the players as needed. (It is also considered a taboo among some nations to discuss spiritual teachings in writing or to name absolute authority in reference to spiritual teachings.) The drum is offered gifts of tobacco during giveaways and musicians acknowledge this by standing.
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