HARRY FONESCA
NISENAN MAIDU, HAWAIIAN, & PORTUGUESE
1946-2006
To read an expanded version of the wall label text in the exhibition, please click on the image below.
To read an expanded version of the wall label text in the exhibition, please click on the image below.
DISCOVERY OF GOLD SOULS
DISCOVERY OF GOLD SOULS
“[The work is] a direct reference to the physical, emotional, and spiritual genocide of the native people of California. With the rise of the mission system, and much later the discovery of gold...the Native world was fractured, and with it, a way of life and order devastated.”
~Harry Fonseca
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