This Selmer "Balanced Action" tenor saxophone was owned by Kaw-Muscogee Native American jazz musician and composer Jim Pepper (June 18, 1941 - February 10, 1992).
Selmer "Balanced Action" tenor saxophone and mouthpiece with case owned by Jim Pepper
- Collection History
- Formerly owned by jazz great Jim Pepper (Kaw/Oklahoma Muscogee, 1941-1992); inherited by his mother Floy Childers Pepper (Oklahoma Muscogee, 1917-2010) and his sister Suzanne (Suzie) Pepper Henry (Kaw/Oklahoma Muscogee); donated to NMAI in 2007 by Floy Childers Pepper, Suzie Pepper Henry, and Suzie's son James Pepper Henry (Kaw/Oklahoma Muscogee, NMAI staff member).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Non-Indian; used by the Kaw (Kansa)
- Artist/Maker
- Henri Selmer Company, Paris
- Previous owner
- Jim Pepper (James Gilbert Pepper II/Hánga Ciyéta/Hun-gah chi-eta), Kaw (Kansa)/Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek), 1941-1992
- Floy C. Pepper (Floy Childers/Floy Childers Pepper), Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek), 1917-2010
- Suzanne M. Henry (Suzie Pepper Henry), Kaw (Kansa)/Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek)
- James Pepper Henry (Jim Pepper Henry), Kaw (Kansa)/Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek)
- Donor
- Floy C. Pepper (Floy Childers/Floy Childers Pepper), Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek), 1917-2010
- Suzanne M. Henry (Suzie Pepper Henry), Kaw (Kansa)/Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek)
- James Pepper Henry (Jim Pepper Henry), Kaw (Kansa)/Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek)
- Date created
- 1938
- Object Name
- Selmer "Balanced Action" tenor saxophone and mouthpiece with case owned by Jim Pepper
- Media/Materials
- Brass, silver, commercially tanned leather, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Hammered, cast, plated, soldered, engraved, mold-made, sewn, strung
- Dimensions
- 78.6 x 26.7 x 15.6 cm
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
