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An acrylic painting depicting the arrival of European colonizers, with institutions of slavery and religion, to North America, clawing from a tumultuous sea onto land inhabited by Indigenous peoples. The artist’s alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, stares directly forward while reaching their right arm down to help a shackled Black man from the sea.

Kent Monkman: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People), Artist Interview | Met Exhibitions

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Go behind the scenes with contemporary artist Kent Monkman, who discusses the inspiration and making of mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People), an exhibition of two paintings that inaugurated the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Great Hall commission, on view between December 19, 2019 and April 9, 2020.

Works of art courtesy Kent Monkman Additional footage courtesy Kent Monkman

© 2019 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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