Marlene Riding In Mameah

{{Short description|Pawnee Native American silversmith and painter (1933–2018)}}

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| name = Marlene Riding In Mameah

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| native_name = Skau-doo-dau-deh-wau-dah{{cite web |title=Marlene Riding In Mameah |url=http://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal/Portal.aspx?component=AAAM&record=6cf22e5c-366d-4b19-9558-7f6f27a1cccb |website=Native American Artists Resource Collection Online |publisher=Heard Museum Bille Jane Baguly Library and Archives |accessdate=July 24, 2018}}

| birth_name = Marlene Mary Riding In

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|03|05}}

| birth_place = Payne County, Oklahoma, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|07|10|1933|03|05}}

| death_place = Pawnee, Oklahoma, U.S.

| nationality = Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma

| education = Bacone College

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| known_for = Southern Plains German silverwork

| spouse = Charles Supernaw, Clayton Mameah

| awards = {{awards|Red Earth Festival|2007|Honored One}}

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Marlene Riding In Mameah (March 5, 1933 – July 10, 2018) was a Pawnee Native American silversmith and painter.

Born Marlene Mary Riding In{{cite book|author=Patricia Janis Broder|title=Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qbd_AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT384|date=December 10, 2013|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-4668-5972-2|page=244}} in Payne County, Oklahoma, Mameah was a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.{{cite web|url=https://www.prx.org/pieces/15161/transcripts/15161|title=PRX » Transcripts|website=PRX - Public Radio Exchange|accessdate=June 28, 2017}}

Education

Mameah attended Chilocco Indian School. She then went to Bacone College, where she wished to study silver smithing. But the class was unavailable to women, and she was required to take painting classes instead; she later learned to work silver while working for a jeweler.{{cite web|url=http://newsok.com/article/3061165|title=Artist's path leads to honors|date=June 1, 2007|accessdate=June 28, 2017}} Her instructor was W. Richard West, Sr. (Southern Cheyenne){{cite web|url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/indiansatthepostoffice/mural4.html|title=Grand Council of 1842|website=postalmuseum.si.edu|accessdate=June 28, 2017}}

Art career

In 1950, her painting Morning Star Ceremony, submitted under the name "M. Riding Inn", received a prize of $150 in the Indian Annual's Plains division.{{cite book|author=Lisa K. Neuman|title=Indian Play: Indigenous Identities at Bacone College|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uaP8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA213|date=January 1, 2014|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-4945-5|pages=213–}}

Mameah taught metalworking at Pawnee Nation College. She won numerous honors throughout her career, and in 2007 was named the Honored One of the Red Earth Festival. Morning Star Ceremony is owned by the Philbrook Museum of Art.

References

External links

[http://www.poteetfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Marlene-Riding-In-Mameah?obId=3150558#/obituaryInfo Marlene Riding In Mameah obituary], poteetfuneralhome.com; accessed July 21, 2018.
[https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/ona/id/57/rec/110 Oral History Interview with Marlene Riding In Mameah]

Category:1933 births

Category:2018 deaths

Category:20th-century American painters

Category:20th-century American women painters

Category:20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas

Category:21st-century American painters

Category:21st-century American women painters

Category:American silversmiths

Category:Artists from Oklahoma

Category:Bacone College alumni

Category:Native American jewelers

Category:Pawnee people