| |
Crow Indian with Peace Pipe
by James Bama
James
Bama met Henry Bright Wings during a medicine ceremony performed in the
tepee of a Crow medicine man in Wyola, Montana. He was then 68. Bama
liked his classic face, which he thought would have been appropriate on
a buffalo nickel. When Bright Wings visited Old Trail Town in Cody,
Wyoming several years later, Bama dressed him in historical costume
including a pre-1900 headdress and a very old buffalo robe from the Old
Trail Town Museum in Cody.
In earlier times
the right to wear a headdress had to be earned, usually in battle.
Today even women and children sometimes wear a showy nontraditional war
bonnet for pow-wow dance parades and celebrations. Many men feel that
their age is entitlement enough, but others will not wear a headdress
because they do not consider it their proper. Bama met a Pine Ridge
Reservation Indian who would not pose in a headdress even though he was
45 years old and certainly looked venerable enough.
During the Indian Wars of the post-Civil War years, Bright Wings’
people, the Crows, frequently allied themselves with the military
against such traditional enemies as the Sioux and the Cheyenne. Crow
scouts rode to their deaths with Custer.
Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Giclée
Canvas:
limited to 75 s/n.
21"w x 17"h.
$595
Free shipping
The Agile Bark Canoe
by John Buxton
The
Native People of the Eastern Woodlands built two types of canoes:
dug-outs, fashioned from tree trunks, and more lightweight canoes made
of bark, preferably birch since it was easier to form. The men in The Agile Bark Canoe are
in hunting canoes of a style attributed to the Passamaquoddy―but
perhaps these Indians traded for them, as was done frequently. They
were as light as an autumn leaf upon water, with the ability to
navigate rivers, shallow streams, marshes and moderate rapids. Being
extremely light enabled easy portage between waterways and yet they
were capable of carrying heavy loads. A canoe this size (12 feet long
by 30 inches wide at its center) could be lifted with one hand and was
very stable when fully loaded. The bark canoe was fast and infinitely
more versatile than any small craft of the European settlers.
Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Giclée
Canvas:
limited to 50 s/n.
25"w x 25"h.
$695
Free shipping
Arriving March 2009
|
|
