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Various Sizes - Matted Prints
One of the great Kiowa warriors who fought against the encroachment of European Americans was Sits-in-the-Saddle, the favorite son of the Kiowa chief Lone Wolf. Wearing a leather outfit that has been colored green to symbolize the earth and decorated with long, colored and twisted fringe, Sits-in-the-Saddle, typifies the Southern Plains Indian's reliance on color and line to epitomize beauty.
Common to the southern Plains is the roach headdress. Made of dyed porcupine and white-tailed deer hair, the beauty of the roach is enhanced by the addition of a center coup feather with quilled strip decoration. Added to this extensive hairdo are various beads and feathers as well as the Kiowa's favorite "hair-plate metal".
Soon enough the Plains Indians learned that a shield's power to protect its owner from bullets lay more in the realm of mysticism than in its actual physical abilities. Therefore Plains shields are generally covered with magical symbols gleaned from dreams or visions and used to create powerful medicine to render their enemies' weapons powerless.
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Various Sizes - Matted Prints
One of the great Kiowa warriors who fought against the encroachment of European Americans was Sits-in-the-Saddle, the favorite son of the Kiowa chief Lone Wolf. Wearing a leather outfit that has been colored green to symbolize the earth and decorated with long, colored and twisted fringe, Sits-in-the-Saddle, typifies the Southern Plains Indian's reliance on color and line to epitomize beauty.
Common to the southern Plains is the roach headdress. Made of dyed porcupine and white-tailed deer hair, the beauty of the roach is enhanced by the addition of a center coup feather with quilled strip decoration. Added to this extensive hairdo are various beads and feathers as well as the Kiowa's favorite "hair-plate metal".
Soon enough the Plains Indians learned that a shield's power to protect its owner from bullets lay more in the realm of mysticism than in its actual physical abilities. Therefore Plains shields are generally covered with magical symbols gleaned from dreams or visions and used to create powerful medicine to render their enemies' weapons powerless.
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