Memories of Honor Bronze Maquette 2002 25 in

Year2002

Foundry Signature w/ StampSignature and Finger Print on the Side of the Sculpture 

Condition Other - Slight oxidation visible in the headdress feathers. Very minor oxidation in the feathers of the lance. The walnut wood base has a crack appearing in the lower half. 

Story / Additional Info'Memories of Honor' depicts Crow King as an older man. In his later years he still shows the strength, pride, and honor that made him such an important leader of his people. As befitting the tribal leadership earned, he now wears a chief’s bonnet that has the extra touch of his trademark beaded crow mounted on the crown.
This bonnet has a trailer of spiked eagle feathers that trails down his back and touches the ground. His necklace is made of pony beads, eagle feathers, and a quilted pendant depicting the four sacred directions. The staff that he carries has fifty-seven eagle feathers and a scalp lock on the top. The eagle was revered as a symbol of leadership and only those considered brave and wise were allowed to wear them.Although it is now faded and worn, he still wears the U.S. Seventh Cavalry Lieutenant Colonel’s coat he obtained at the Little Big Horn. As a demonstration of its importance to both Crow King and the people, it has been extensively beaded and decorated over the years. He also wears a ceremonial pictorial robe decorated with scenes of important battles in his life and enhanced with a horizontal beaded strip. One of the most important items that he carries for all ceremonies is a wooden carving of his favorite war horse. The main and tail of this carving is made from hair taken from his famous dappled gray horse that he rode during the Battle of Little Big Horn. He carved and painted this talisman himself and he would carry it, strapped on his back, for protection in battle and on all horse raids. 

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Dave McGary - United States

Art Brokerage: Dave McGary American Artist: b. 1958-2013. Born in 1958, Artist Dave McGary grew up in Cody, Wyoming, the son of a ranching family. At age 16, McGary headed to Pietrasanta, near the Carrara Alps in Italy, where he worked in a foundry by day and on his own sculpture at night for a year and a half. Returning to the United States in 1976, he went to work for Shidoni Foundry, then moved from Santa Fe to the Hondo Valley in southern New Mexico where he ultimately built his own foundry outside Ruidoso, NM. The connection to Native American culture through his friendship with Daniel Long Soldier is one way that McGary's art stands apart from other contemporary interpretations of Native American culture. Though he immersed himself in history books and other means of study, it was his connection to Native American culture that brought life to each figure. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.