Foreign Currency II
This series of work is my Rendezvous collection: rendezvous coming from a French word brought to the Plains, meaning to come together.
Broken Barter
The barter was broken, as were promises.
Trade Bead Currency
Those two items, ironically, were largely luxury goods: making westward expansion and trade a fashion-driven enterprise!
Thread of Trade
Our interdependence on one another is a concern, but perhaps could very well be what saves us…
Trade Bead Fashion Exchange
Beaver pelts were plentiful to the Native Americans at that time, and they desired items which they did not have the resources or technology to produce.
Acts of Bravery
A stick such as this could honor a favored and equally brave horse wounded or killed in battle.
Battle of the Greasy Grass
Images in this painting are inspired by the ledger art of Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, who recorded tales told to him by his uncle and father, who fought in the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
Thunderbird Symbols
“Thunderbird Symbols” 24 x 30” Framed Oil Painting on Canvas Various icons for the powerfully symbolic form of the Thunderbird are explored in this painting. The ultimate simplification of the Thunderbird symbol is a cross. This caused me to ponder the confusion the Christian cross symbol inevitably posed to the first Native Americans introduced to it. Cultural symbols very likely …
Wealth of Vision
Horses were a source of currency with Native Americans.
Bison Hunt Memories
There are possibly as many versions of the “true” story of a historical event, as the people who lived it.