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Windbreaker on a mannequin. The windbreaker features a black angular design at the top and red-orange feather and shell-motifs. The bottom is white with the silhouette of an antlered animal.
Detail of the jacket’s left lower side, showing a print-like black silhouette of an antlered animal below smaller red, cream, and black birds.
Back of a windbreaker on a mannequin. Its top features a black angular design with red-orange feather and shell-motifs. Its white bottom features the silhouette of an antlered animal.
Side of the windbreaker on the mannequin, showing a pink, red, blue, and green beaded flower on the upper sleeve framed by white circles and red-orange feather motifs.
The jacket’s white interior, showing that the tooth-like motifs continue on the inside of the collar. The upper jacket’s interior is black with ‘Indigenous NDN” written in white Gothic lettering.
Detail of the windbreaker’s zippered collar, with a row of white circles going around the upper edge and two rows of tooth-like motifs with red stripes going around the neck.
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Jamie Okuma

Windbreaker

Description

Maker

Jamie Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock/Wailaki/Okinawan, b. 1977), designer
Jamie Okuma, design label

Title

Windbreaker

Year

Spring/Summer 2021

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Center back length: 68.6 cm (27 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Kate Irvin

Object Number

2021.124.4

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Being and Believing in the Natural World
Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America
Oct 22, 2022 – Jun 04, 2023

Label copy

Native American makers highly respect and value their sources of adornment, traditionally using organic elements such as feathers and shells to decorate regalia. Designer Jamie Okuma recontextualizes these traditions through digital printing on contemporary garments. This windbreaker features printed elk teeth on the collar and feathers and dentalium shells on the sleeves. An elk and three birds decorate the front of the jacket, paying homage to animals that typically provide ornamental materials.

—SB

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Jamie Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock/Wailaki/Okinawan, b. 1977), designer
Jamie Okuma, design label
Windbreaker, Spring/Summer 2021
Polyester; digitally printed
Center back length: 68.6 cm (27 inches)
Gift of Kate Irvin 2021.124.4

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