From Token to Ornament

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

NOW CLOSED

Indian Peace Medals and the McKenney-Hall Portraits

The medals and lithographs shown at the National Portrait Gallery are one aspect of the complex stories of diplomatic exchange between Euro-Americans and Native Americans.

This exhibition features 21 objects, including photographs, prints, peace medals, and it is curated by Brandon Brame Fortune, the Portrait Gallery’s chief curator and senior curator of painting and sculpture, and Wendy Wick Reaves, senior curator emerita of prints and drawings.

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