April 12th, 2010 – Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez: Selected Works

Luiseño artist and activist Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez was born on southern California’s Rincon Indian Reservation in 1888. She was immediately adopted and taken to New York City, where she grew up in the home of a prominent physician and his sister. During her lifetime, Wa Wa Chaw was a lecturer, an entertainer, and an activist for Indian and feminist causes. She was also a prolific artist and many of her drawings and original writings are now in the collection of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. This exhibition features about 30 of Wa Wa Chaw’s pencil drawings and presents representative examples of her journals and sketchbooks.

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