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The Last Lakota Horse Raid

Rhonda Holy Bear, Wakah Wayuphika Win, Making Beauty with Exceptional Skills Woman Native American

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This sculpture represents a Lakota woman of the late 1800s and honors a successful 1879 raid to acquire horses. The figure wears a fully beaded dress depicting six warriors and their horses, hoof marks, and captured horses. In her right hand, she carries a horse stick that would have been made by her husband to honor his favorite warhorse killed in battle. The great warrior White Bull’s account inspired this work.

The Last Lakota Horse Raid, Rhonda Holy Bear, Wakah Wayuphika Win, Making Beauty with Exceptional Skills Woman (Native American, Sans Arc, Two Kettle, and Hunkpapa Lakota (Teton Sioux), born South Dakota, 1959), Wood (basswood), native-tanned and commercial leather, glass beads, pigment, cotton cloth, hair, dentalium shells, abalone, German silver, metal cones, brass tacks, beads, Sans Arc, Two Kettle and Hunkpapa Lakota (Teton Sioux)

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The Last Lakota Horse Raid, Rhonda Holy Bear, Wakah Wayuphika Win, Making Beauty with Exceptional Skills Woman (Native American, Sans Arc, Two Kettle, and Hunkpapa Lakota (Teton Sioux), born South Dakota, 1959), Wood (basswood), native-tanned and commercial leather, glass beads, pigment, cotton cloth, hair, dentalium shells, abalone, German silver, metal cones, brass tacks, beads, Sans Arc, Two Kettle and Hunkpapa Lakota (Teton Sioux)
The Last Lakota Horse Raid, Rhonda Holy Bear, Wakah Wayuphika Win, Making Beauty with Exceptional Skills Woman (Native American, Sans Arc, Two Kettle, and Hunkpapa Lakota (Teton Sioux), born South Dakota, 1959), Wood (basswood), native-tanned and commercial leather, glass beads, pigment, cotton cloth, hair, dentalium shells, abalone, German silver, metal cones, brass tacks, beads, Sans Arc, Two Kettle and Hunkpapa Lakota (Teton Sioux)

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