These life like mannequins were found by a friend of mine where they are on display at The Mimbres Cultural Heritage Site in New Mexico, where I have been a museum volunteer for the past three years. The Mimbres Tribe is among the oldest of all Native American tribes in the World! Known for their excusite pottery, the tribe lived and created their unique art and pottery between 200-1150 AD. Being Native myself, I have been intrigued by these mannequins and their disturbing static status, not unlike the way many people construct inaccurate perceptions of Native people, in this work I hope to contrast Anglo fantasy’s of Native Americans in relationship to the inventions of Reservations, and how many Native people actually live. The genesis of the work is to compare how reservations have oppressed Native American’s, and how government leaves them in this static space, where they have experienced total abnegation of their tribal rituals, rights and traditions. The work is meant to be a form of formal portraiture, unsettled and even disturbing in its stasis.