Frederick Weygold: Artist and Ethnographer of the American Indian

January 7 – March 26, 2017 - This comprehensive exhibition features highlights from the Speed’s Native American Indian collection, along with paintings, drawings and photographs by Louisville artist and ethnographer Frederick Weygold.

Highlights of the exhibition include a dramatic, full-length eagle feather bonnet or headdress, a catlinite pipe bowl and stem purported to have belonged to the renowned Sac and Fox leader Black Hawk, an elaborate Lakota warrior’s dress ensemble that includes a beaded and painted shirt and accessories, examples of Weygold’s meticulous drawings of Plains and Woodlands Indian art and rare photographs of Native American subjects.