This Painted Pony is part of The Tribal Collection.
It honors authentic Native American arts and heritage: Every August
since 1904, Crow Agency, Montana has held a fair designed to celebrate
and preserve early Crow culture and customs. A summer destination for Native
Americans from all over North America, it features a parade, rodeo, relay
races, Native dancing, contests and colorful exhibitions of beadwork. American
flags fly high above the teepee poles in honor of Crow soldiers who served
in the American military. For over 100 years, this artist's family has lived
as ranchers on the Crow Reservation, giving authority and authenticity
to her artistic tribute to the Crow Fair.
Measures: 7"
Your Price $ 49.95
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Artist Sonja Caywood was privileged to
have grown up ranching the old-fashioned way – with a mess wagon,
tents, teepees and a rope corral in the Bighorn Mountains on the Crow Indian
reservation. Living so closely tied to land steeped in the history and spirit
of the Cowboy and Native culture turned her into an artist at an early age.
The love of that land inspires much of her art today. "I want my art to
engage the viewer to stop and take in the beauty around us in this quickly
changing place and time, to identify with our landscape in this slice of
soon-to-be history."
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