TD2802
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Hello all, been away far too long but thought I'd share my recently completed Crow vs. Blackfeet vignette from PM and sculpted by Julian Hulis. As usual my old cellphone photos wash out some of the gradation. For warpaint choices, I used a hailstone pattern on the Crow whose power and suddenness in a storm the plains tribes believed gave good 'medicine' in battle. For the Blackfeet (in buffalo headers), black and red were the colors of war and death; horizontal stripes on the limbs represented 'coups' counted against the enemy - so this guy is a veteran of sorts.
These two tribes were hereditary enemies and often raided each other for horses or captives in order to gain honor or recognition within their own societies. Both had a mutual enemy in the Sioux or Lakota where American expansion in the 19th century pushed them further west into tradition Crow and Blackfeet lands. While I enjoyed researching and building it, reading the history of the treatment of native peoples by the Anglo-Americans was rather bleak as they played on old intertribal rivalries to serve their own expansionist ambitions. Thanks for looking!
These two tribes were hereditary enemies and often raided each other for horses or captives in order to gain honor or recognition within their own societies. Both had a mutual enemy in the Sioux or Lakota where American expansion in the 19th century pushed them further west into tradition Crow and Blackfeet lands. While I enjoyed researching and building it, reading the history of the treatment of native peoples by the Anglo-Americans was rather bleak as they played on old intertribal rivalries to serve their own expansionist ambitions. Thanks for looking!
Great and I like the water effect
