NMAI buys shawl made by noted Chickasaw artist

  Tyra Shackleford is at it again. The Chickasaw master fabric weaver recently sold a breathtaking, multicolored, lightning-bolt shawl to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, D.C. It marks the second time Shackleford’s talent has enticed a museum purchase with her intricate and delicate finger-woven creations. Shackleford’s “The Lady” […]