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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, January 13, 1992                   TAG: 9201130036
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 4   EDITION: METRO 
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INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHER'S FIRST RETROSPECTIVE ON MUSEUM TOUR

The first retrospective of photographs by Horace Poolaw, the only American Indian of his generation recognized as a professional photographer, is set to travel to museums across the country.

Poolaw, born a Kiowa in Mountain View, Okla., in 1906, photgraphed traditional ceremonies, festive occasions and commonplace events of the Kiowa and other Plains Indians.

His images include portraits of a traditionally dressed elderly warrior with his war lance outside his frame house, and a mother wearing high-heeled pumps carrying her child in a cradleboard.

Tribal events and everyday life, in and around Mountain View and Andarko, Okla., are the subjects of the 72 gelatin silver prints in "Kiowa Culture in Transition, 1925-1955: The Photographs of Horace Poolaw."

The exhibition will be in Los Angeles through April 26. It then moves on to Tulsa, Okla., Phoenix, Ariz., and the National Museum of the American Indian, New York City.

-Associated Press

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