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![Don Smith, an artist of Cherokee descent, was named "Lelooska" when he was formally adopted by Nez Perce tribe and later as "Gixken" (chief of chiefs) by the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of British Columbia. Smith's house screen is based on an identical image pa](https://now.uiowa.edu/sites/now.uiowa.edu/files/styles/iowanow_thumbnail/public/photo-galleries/IMG_1643.JPG?itok=YMdEBO3t "Don Smith, an artist of Cherokee descent, was named "Lelooska" when he was formally adopted by Nez Perce tribe and later as "Gixken" (chief of chiefs) by the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of British Columbia. Smith's house screen is based on an identical image painted on a cotton sheet in the British Columbia Museum of Anthropology. As a master storyteller and sculptor, Smith used his house screen as a backdrop in performances during which he and others were often masked and dressed in full regalia. (House screen in Kwakwaka'wakw style, 1963, museum purchase, 1972.52.)")
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