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Black Elk's Great Grandson
by James Bama
Clifton DeSerca, a Sioux, lives and works in the modern world but
has strong ties to the last days of the free-roaming horseback Native
American of the plains. His great-grandfather was Black Elk, a Sioux
holy man whose autobiography is considered one of the most important
pieces of Native American literature. As a young man, Black Elk
participated in the battle of the Little Big Horn. In his older
years, he told his story to John G. Neihardt who translated it into
the classic Black Elk Speaks. DeSerca serves his people
by being involved in a reservation outreach program working with
alcoholics. He is portrayed here wearing a Sioux headdress and a
historic shirt from the trading-post period.
Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Giclée
Canvas:
limited to 100 s/n.
20"w x 20"h.
$750 | $860 CDN | £490 | €730
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Medicine Shields of the Blackfoot
by Howard Terpning
Among the Blackfoot people the shield was the most cherished and
protective possession. Above all, it was a medicine object. Medicine
shields have dream or vision origins. Making a shield could be a
lengthy process involving several people, but it had to start with
the hide taken from the neck and shoulder of a bull buffalo. Once
the hair was removed, this thick hide was then placed over a fire
pit filled with hot stones and staked to the ground. The heat of
the stones would gradually shrink the hide until it was about one
inch thick. It was then painted and decorated to conform with the
owner’s dream. When the shield was not carried by the owner
on a war party, it was supported on a tri-pod outside the teepee
on sunny days, and as the sun moved, the tri-pod was turned so that
the face of the shield would always be in direct sunlight.
Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Giclée
Canvas:
limited to 650 s/n.
23"w x 22"h.
$750 | $860 CDN | £490 | €730
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Arriving November 2006
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