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dataPW[1] = new data("images/collaboration/pw02_l.jpg","<font><strong>Wendy Ponca</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;July 1998<br><br>&quot;My name is Wendy Ponca. I'm Osage Indian and I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I taught for ten years at the Institute of American Indian Arts. I was a professor of fiber arts and fashion design and I also went to high school there. I received my Bachelor's Degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and my Master's Degree is in art therapy.<br><br>I believe all art is therapy, whether it's therapy for the person that's doing it or therapy for the person that views it. I think it's so important to exercise the left side of the brain. It is good for people to just view art. It's so positive and stimulating.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[2] = new data("images/collaboration/pw03_l.jpg","<font>Traditional Osage Man's Otterhide Turban<br>Glass beads, ribbons, mirrors, and otterhide.</font>")
dataPW[3] = new data("images/collaboration/pw04_l.jpg","<font>Gun Case<br>Buckskin, cut glass beads, and red wool.</font>")
dataPW[4] = new data("images/collaboration/pw05_l.jpg","<font>Traditional Osage Medicine Bag<br>Otterhide, glass beads, and satin.</font>")
dataPW[5] = new data("images/collaboration/pw06_l.jpg","<font>Hand-tanned buckskin, satin lining, and glass beads.<br><br>&quot;I do not see myself fitting into the fashion scene - like in Milan. My designs are not meant to be sold on a mass production basis. People commission me to make a dress or a dance outfit for them. Museums have asked to buy my pieces for their collections.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[6] = new data("images/collaboration/pw07_l.jpg","<font>Wool, satin, and glass beads<br><br>&quot;I'm really influenced by Greek sculpture and a lot of my fashion designs are draped. I like the flow of the material where you can't see too many seams. That style is similar with my tribe. We wear skirts that are wrapped around. Nothing really has seams; one size fits all. It's really elegant. A lot of my clothing is like that.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[7] = new data("images/collaboration/pw08_l.jpg","<font>Traditional Osage Child's Wearing Blanket<br>Wool trade cloth, satin, and gold-plated glass beads.<br><br>&quot;This is a traditional design. The hands symbolize friendship and also the Ho'-e-ga, which is the snare that catches the breath of life.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[8] = new data("images/collaboration/pw09_l.jpg","<font>Tradional Osage Wearing Blanket<br>Wool trade cloth, satin ribbons, and glass beads.</font>")
dataPW[9] = new data("images/collaboration/pw10_l.jpg","<font>Ribbon Work Coat<br>Wool, satin, and gold-plated glass beads.</font>")
dataPW[10] = new data("images/collaboration/pw11_l.jpg","<font>&quot;The most fun thing that I've been doing lately in fashion design is working with body painting. I've been trying to incorporate traditional Osage tattoo designs in body paint and contemporary designs using paint that is not permanent. I had been using acrylic paint but it dries up and chips. Now I use fabric paint which works much better.&quot;</font>")                                                                                                          
dataPW[11] = new data("images/collaboration/pw12_l.jpg","<font>Ceremonial Attire for the New Millennium<br>Denver Art Museum fashion show June 1998<br><br>&quot;The models are wearing draped mylar fashion designs, body paint, and eagle feathers in their hair.&quot;</font>")                                                                                                                           
dataPW[12] = new data("images/collaboration/pw13_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I've also been experimenting with airbrushing peoples' bodies.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[13] = new data("images/collaboration/pw14_l.jpg","<font>&quot;The traditional designs come from Osage mythology. The Osage spider design used to be tattooed on the tops of women's hands. It represents the fact that we are spirits trapped here on this earth, in this material world, just like the spider traps things in it's web. We are spirits but we're here in solid form.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[14] = new data("images/collaboration/pw15_l.jpg","<font>&quot;Nobody in my tribe does the tattoos anymore because there was a sacred ceremony you had to go through. The people that did the tattoos belonged to a secret society. People don't really know what it was about anymore or how it was done.<br><br>Your father, uncle, or husband had to have achieved great feats in war before he could get tattoos. When he got those honors, he was allowed to get a tattoo and there were ceremonies for this.<br><br>In my tribe the more tattoos you had the more social prestige you had. It also showed that if a woman had these tattoos, who ever got these for her really loved her. Men's tattoos were war symbols and the women's tattoos symbolized fertility and birth and maps or diagrams depicting where we came from - the stars.<br><br>This is a traditional Osage design which symbolizes the pathway back up to the stars.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[15] = new data("images/collaboration/pw16_l.jpg","<font>&quot;While I've been here in New York City, I've visited the Huntington Free Library in the Bronx, which was excellent. I found a lot of information there on Osages. I also went to the NMAI Research Branch and was able to see and photograph two tattooing bundles with all of the tools inside of them. Then, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to Soho to check out some of the really cool artists around town. I went to the New York Historical Society and got some great copies of photographs of Osage people.<br><br>I visited the Museum of Natural History and was able to see the Osage pieces on exhibit and in their collection. They had a really nice collection of Osage woven bags that we don't make anymore. They also gave me a really nice photograph of an Osage man who'd been tattooed, so that was very helpful.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[16] = new data("images/collaboration/pw17_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I didn't know this before, but in the Osage section of the NMAI exhibit, All Roads Are Good, there is a quote from my father, Carl Ponca. I hadn't known about that and I almost cried when I found it.<br><br>In the quote he talks about how we learn, how traditions come and go for Indian people, how we learn by watching our relatives around us and that sometimes traditions die but they always come back again because some one will always bring them around and use them again.&quot;</font>")
dataPW[17] = new data("images/collaboration/pw18_l.jpg","<font>&quot;In November, I will share with the people of my tribe the information I compiled about Osage tattoos and rituals while studying at the National Museum of the American Indian. I will also ask the eldest people in my tribe about their experience or knowledge about traditional tattooing.<br><br>Tattooing is no longer practiced among the Osages and there are no people living who have the traditional tattoos. By recording the very last remembrances of this art form, hopefully, this very religious practice will not be forgotten.<br><br>I will also ask what their feelings are about bringing back the tattoos into current society. These discussions will also revive the importance of Osage beliefs among an oppressed, forgotten culture. Maybe it will spur the reoccurrence of Osage tattoos among the younger members of the tribe.&quot;</font>")

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