Bruno
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Hello,
I have finished my vignette of the Sunrise Ceremony of the White Mountain Apache maiden Willow in 1880. Willow was the great-great-grandmother of my American figurine friend Guy Herrick.
The Apache had a great culture and a deep routed spirituality and religion. In this religion the "Mountain Spirits" are the messenger between the spiritual world and the material world. The "Mountain Spirits" consists of four "Gan", with a black body paint and on "Clown" with a white body paint.
The Sunrise Ceremony was the most important rite in a woman’s live, held after her first menstruation. The “Mountain Spirits” come to this ceremony to bring good luck and a long live to the girl.
This ceremony was, like all religious Indian ceremony’s forbidden by law in the USA in 1883 by the “Indian Religious Crime Code”. In 1978 the Native Americans gained the right of religious freedom with the "American Indian Religious Freedom Act”. Today the Sunrise Ceremony is again held on all Apache Reservations as an imoprtant part of their social and religious life.
The figurines were sculpted by myself, with Apoxy-Sculpt, Duro, Magic Sculp, as well as Preiser-heads. The magic wands of the Mountain Spirits are made with plastic-sheet. The figurines were painted with Acrylic Paint of the Vallejo and Andera brand as well as some effects with oil paint.
The figurines are in 54 mm.
I hope you enjoy my work.
Many greeting from Germany
Bruno
I have finished my vignette of the Sunrise Ceremony of the White Mountain Apache maiden Willow in 1880. Willow was the great-great-grandmother of my American figurine friend Guy Herrick.
The Apache had a great culture and a deep routed spirituality and religion. In this religion the "Mountain Spirits" are the messenger between the spiritual world and the material world. The "Mountain Spirits" consists of four "Gan", with a black body paint and on "Clown" with a white body paint.
The Sunrise Ceremony was the most important rite in a woman’s live, held after her first menstruation. The “Mountain Spirits” come to this ceremony to bring good luck and a long live to the girl.
This ceremony was, like all religious Indian ceremony’s forbidden by law in the USA in 1883 by the “Indian Religious Crime Code”. In 1978 the Native Americans gained the right of religious freedom with the "American Indian Religious Freedom Act”. Today the Sunrise Ceremony is again held on all Apache Reservations as an imoprtant part of their social and religious life.
The figurines were sculpted by myself, with Apoxy-Sculpt, Duro, Magic Sculp, as well as Preiser-heads. The magic wands of the Mountain Spirits are made with plastic-sheet. The figurines were painted with Acrylic Paint of the Vallejo and Andera brand as well as some effects with oil paint.
The figurines are in 54 mm.
I hope you enjoy my work.
Many greeting from Germany
Bruno
