Clearly Indigenous Audio Exhibition
Pa’huk Site
Pa’huk Site, 2020, Brian Barber (American, Pawnee, b. 1975), 38 x 10 x 8 in. (96.5 x 25.4 x 20.3 cm), cast glass, Collection of the artist, L10.2023:49
Verbal Description
Hello, I’m Emily Holtrop, the museum’s director of learning and interpretation. I will be sharing a description of Pa’huk Site by Brian Barber in Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass.
Pa’huk Site, from 2020, is cast glass. It was created by Brian Barber, who was born in 1975 and is a Pawnee artist. It is from the collection of the artist.
Pa’huk Site is a three-dimensional sculpture crafted from colorless cast glass. It is displayed on the lower shelf of the case that holds Mystical Journey Prototype, also highlighted in this exhibition’s accessible audio content. An undulating form, it measures 38 inches tall, 10 inches wide, and 8 inches deep, or 96.5 centimeters tall, 25.4 centimeters wide, and 20.3 centimeters deep. This artwork appears as a broad and crooked rectangular band, with bends and dips throughout, reminiscent of a flowing ribbon or the path of a curving river.
Label Audio
Hello, I’m Emily Holtrop, the museum’s director of learning and interpretation. I will be sharing the label for Pa’huk Site by Brian Barber in Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass.
Pa’huk Site, from 2020, is cast glass. It was created by Brian Barber, who was born in 1975 and is a Pawnee artist. It is from the collection of the artist.
Pa’huk Site shows the contours from a section of the Platte River in Nebraska. Barber, an architect, presents this site in a cross section in the manner of an architectural model. This area of the river is adjacent to an ancestral Pawnee sacred site known as Pa’huk, the dwelling of spirit animals with miraculous powers.