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Sculpture: Walks Among Stars: Pueblo, Colorado (CO)

This wonderful sculpture is at the south end of the Riverwalk. The texture of the beadwork and the deerskin dress and the addition of real brass bells around the lower edge of the dress is wonderful. Please view this at the original size to examine the sculpture more closely.

 

I don't normally manipulate my photos this much, but it was difficult to photograph the sculpture without including visual clutter.

 

This is what's on the sloping granite slab at the base of the sculpture:

 

WALKS AMONG THE STARS

 

Artist Dave McGary's 2004 bronze sculpture

depicts a late 18th century Lakota woman

displaying her beautiful heirloom star quilt.

 

As the Indian Wars ended and the Northern

Plains tribes faced relocation to reservations

the Sioux women began making patchwork

quilts as replacements for traditional

buffalo robes. Today, the star quilt is a

symbol of prestige, sentiment, belonging and

status within the contemporary

Lakota culture

 

Aug 25 2009 foundation gift to the

Historic Arkansas Riverwalk by

LeVERT W HOAG

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