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In her work, Ponca artist Julie Buffalohead uses mythical animal imagery to create fairytale-esque drawings and paintings. Since 1989, Indianapolis’s Eiteljorg Museum has celebrated the work of groundbreaking contemporary Native _______ in 2013, it awarded Buffalohead one of its prestigious artist fellowships.

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