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| "1780 - Catawba" (25) |
The name Catawba means “river people”. Their own name was; Iyeye (people) or Nieye (real people) and the Spanish referred to them as the Iswa
Early on, the Catawba were practitioners of a flathead people. A process where the infant was placed in a cradle with a board hinged to the top of the cradle. The baby’s head was then placed under the board where pressure was applied for an extended period of time with the objective of flattening the baby’s forehead. As a warrior, this flat forehead along with their distinctive tradition of painting a black circle around one eye, a white circle around the other with the remainder of the face painted black made for a frightful sight to their enemies.
Up until the 1650’s the Catawba were in constant conflict with their neighbors, the Cherokee nation and the Delaware. In 1660’s the refugee Shawnee, escaping the invading Iroquois, were invited by the Cherokee to move into their northern boundary to act as a buffer between the Cherokee Nation and their enemy the Catawba. Ignoring the fact that the Shawnee had moved to the Cherokee lands, the Iroquois nation continued to pursue and harass the Shawnee. As the Iroquois passed south through the
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| "1763" |
In September of 1760 the British General, Jeffery Amherst, along with the help of the Iroquois Nation defeated the French at Montreal. After accepting total capitulation from the French Governor, Pierre Vudreuil, General Amherst issued 23* Cast medals with a cityscape of Montreal on the face. These medals were given in gratitude to those instrumental to the success of the campaign. On February 10, 1763 the Treaty of Paris was signed, closing the books on the French and Indian war. Later in 1763 King George III medals were issued to those Indians loyal to the British. 1763 represents one of the many Iroquois, without whose help the next chapter, the American Revolution might never have happened.
* As these medals were being made, the mold was accidentally dropped and damaged. Therefore each of the original 23 medals has a crack in the medal where the original mold was damaged. While I have recreated the two medals referred to in the above text, and incorporated them into the base of the sculpture, they do not appear in this photo.
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| "Black Buffalo Woman - Crazy Horse's Muse" |
As two young children growing up in an Oglala, Sioux village, Black Buffalo Woman and Curly (Crazy Horse’s childhood name) were well acquainted. She was the niece of the great chief, Red Cloud, while Crazy Horse came from humbler stock. However, at this stage of their lives, social standing had little meaning. Besides, like most young boys his age, Curly had no interest in girls. His time was occupied learning the ways of a warrior under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, High Back Bone or Hump, as he was commonly known. Older than Curly, Hump had already distinguished himself as a born leader in a time when the future of their people was uncertain.
As both Black Buffalo Woman and Crazy Horse matured into young adults, they started to take notice of one another. Frequently called, The Pretty One or Pretty Valley, Black Buffalo Woman had developed into a beautiful young woman with many suitors; Crazy Horse being one of them. This attraction was by no means an unrequited one, for Black Buffalo Woman was drawn to Crazy Horse as well. No small part of her attraction for Crazy Horse was his humility and giving nature. A selflessness and modesty he possessed which other y
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| "Above the Monongahela" |
It is the middle of the 18th century and the entire Great Lakes area was a battleground in a continuing struggle for Empire between France and England. While the conflict is world wide, both are intent on expanding their colonization into the new world. Soon another conflict will open up in the Great Lakes area, Pontiac’s Rebellion.
With the French out of the way, British trade goods had begun to deteriorate in quality and quantity. The natives to the west, such as the Ottawa are the first to feel the impact. Disgruntled, an Ottawa war chief by the name of Pontiac built an alliance with the surrounding Great Lakes tribes intent on driving the British out. One of the tribes that joined Pontiac’s alliance was the western most Iroquois tribe, the Seneca. The other five Iroquois tribes remained loyal to the British creating a schism within the nation.
Above the Monongahela represents the internal conflict and struggle of these once proud and powerful people of the Iroquois nation.
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| "Shawnee Treaty Delegate" |
In 1763, at the close of the French and Indian wars, the British had signed treaties with the natives of the Ohio Valley. In keeping with their promise to these natives, the British government had forbade the colonists to enter the lands known as the Northwest Territories, or Ohio Valley (a region that constitutes the present states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the eastern part of Minnesota). Twenty years later, at the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783) the American Revolution came to an end. With the war over, the colonists began picking up the pieces in an effort to rebuild their lives. Part of that rebuilding was the hint of promise in the fertile Ohio Valley. Now, in the absence of any restraint by the British government, the colonists looked westward to these, “uninhabited” lands.
The war had been expensive and while free of British tyranny, the newly formed colonial government also found themselves to be financially bankrupt. With huge debts and no revenues to pay them off, the nascent government looked at ways of resolving their financial crisis. Whereas the new government may have been cash poor, they had land, and lots of it just over the w
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| "Cheyenne Bear Hunter" |
Most, if not all of my work, is drawn from the written word, from something I have read;
Cheyenne Bear Hunter is no exception. The significance of this work is that it’s one of my earlier sculptures and my first, life size, bronze head. At the time I sculpted this piece, I was reading the incredible story of a small band of Cheyenne, led by Dull Knife and Little Wolf.
The story began with the discovery of gold in the Black Hills in 1874. That discovery led to the famous, battle of the Little Big Horn of June, 1876. We all know the end results of Custer’s folly; attacking a large settlement (2500 to 4000 men) of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne with 260 troops. This battle, however, was by no means the end of the story.
The ripple effect of the Custer disaster was predictable, in that the miners, settlers and the military were all calling for blood; demanding revenge. As a result, a massive military campaign was put into motion, the purpose of which was the forced removal of all Natives from the area to the newly designated “Indian Country”. One such relocation occurred in the Dakotas, on the Red fork of the Powder River in November of that same year. It was a small village of Nor
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| "Buffalo Medicine" |
The purple-headed American bison, (known as the buffalo) was revered by the Native Americans for its strength and prosperity. These people studied, imitated and incorporated the buffalo into many of their religious ceremonies in the hopes of acquiring some of the buffalo’s traits. Medicine men called upon the powers of the spirit buffalo as an intermediary asking for divine intervention by the Great Spirit to aid them in their healing arts. For ceremonial proposes, buffalo skulls were painted with symbols and prayed to during the Sun Dance or a vision quest. Frequently the entire head may have been placed on the ground at the rear of a lodge for sacrificial offerings to the spirit buffalo. Children were often given the name of the buffalo in hopes that like the buffalo, these children too would grow strong and mature quickly. Chiefs tied the long forelock of a bull to the tip of a lodge pole as a symbol of their own strength and prosperity.
The sculpture Buffalo Medicine is a representation of the close connection between the plains Indians and the spirit of the American buffalo.
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| "Sea Bears" |
The “Sea Bear”, (Ursus maritimus) commonly referred to as a Polar bear can be found throughout the Arctic in Alaska, Greenland and the northern most reaches of Canada, Russia, Denmark and Norway. Weighing in at 775 to more than 1,500 pounds for an adult male with the considerably smaller, female at 330 to 550 pounds, these bears are considered marine mammals. With massive 12” forepaws and three to four inches of blubber for buoyancy these bears are excellent swimmers. No-one really knows their limits but they have been known to swim more than 60 miles without a rest.
To look at the Sea Bear they appear white and begin to yellow with age. Despite what we perceive as white their fur is not white. Each hair shaft is pigment-free and transparent with a hollow core. They look white because the hollow core scatters and reflects the visible light. The result of this hollow core is an insulation so efficient that no perceptible heat escapes. An infrared photograph cannot detect their presence except for the minute traces of their breath. Adding the fat layer as mentioned above to this air tight insulation can make an adult Polar bear overheat quickly when running. Not that this
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