Size 44 1/2" high 19" wide
All pieces are moose antlers that are first engraved, then painted with an alkyd enamel. Because the dark narrow line are engraved (deep recessed), they are finished with a pentel pen.
At the antler crowns, the heads are sculpted first with a Dremel Power tool, filed, sanded, then buffed. There is well in excess of 100 hours of work in Mother Crow. Mother Crow is on exhibit at the Brown Gallery in Boise, Idaho. If interested, photos will be mailed to you because these did not reproduce well.
Price $6,500.
On 10/17 the Centennial 22 Juried Art Show sponsored by the Nampa Art Guild and held at the Nampa Civic Center, Mother Crow won the Gold Award. |
Size 38" High 16"Wide
The Gros Ventre (Groh Vahnt) indian tribe is a sect of the Arapaho. I named this piece that because I saw a small flute that had a horse head similar to the one I sculpted at the antler crown, It was from that tribe. Let me tell you about it.
It was a courting flute that a young man might use to entice a lover.
It was made for him by the medicine man who also gave him a song. As the young man came of age, and he found the young maiden of his dreams, it is said that all he had to do was to play the song on the flute and she would lose all her defenses and she would be his. And life was lovely.
This has a solid base block of big leaf maple burl. $6,500.00
Also on exhibit at the Brown Gallery
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19 1/2" High 12" Wide
I named this Lahontan because in Nevada the great Lahanton Cuthroat trout comes from there. At the antler crown is the head of a trout. The Lahontan cuthroat trout gets BIG. Its not unheard of to catch them in excess of 20 pounds out of Pyramid Lake. I love this fish.
On exhibit at the Brown Gallery, Boise, Idaho
The base is Turkish walnut and granite. $1,750.00
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24" High 12" Wide
For centuries, every young Native American teenager, maybe even pre-teen, attempts to acquire some personal power that will serve his own interests (even today).
As with medicine men or shamans, such personal power could be achieved through 'vision quests'.
The young man will go by himself usually up high on a mountaintop and fast and pray for days to the Great Spirit, searching and seeking some relationship between himself and nature and the Great Spirit.
If he was, (is) fortunate it may come in a vision or a dream in which a spirit will reveal certain sacred
objects, designs or animals or birds that would bring supernatural aid in times of need.
If you look closely at the tines of the antler, at the bottom tine is a fish, next is the head of a bear, next is a duck and then falcon. Inlaid turqoise and coral which the Zuni and Navajo use in their jewelry and pottery.
Elm burl block base.
On exhibit at the Brown Gallery $1,950.00 |
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