Indian Family at Routine Tasks - Coalgate, OK
Posted by: hamquilter
N 34° 32.353 W 096° 13.076
14S E 755319 N 3825462
This mural hangs in the lobby of the U.S. Post Office in Coalgate.
Waymark Code: WM14508
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/16/2021
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Acee Blue Eagle was a well-known Native American artist who painted quite a few of the murals that hang in U.S. post offices, under a WPA-sponsored program. This mural is entitled "Indian Family at Routine Tasks" and was painted and installed in 1942.
It shows a Native American man with a bow and arrow, as well as three women threshing and grinding wheat. Across the sky flies a flock of Scissortail, the Oklahoma state bird. On the lower right corner, the artist has painted "Blue eagle - Oct. '42".