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Footsteps of the Brave -- "The Reverent Trail" by artist Harry Schaare
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Footsteps of the Brave -- "The Reverent Trail" by artist Harry Schaare -- Bradford Exchange 1993 -- Seventh plate in this series. Plate size is approx 8 inches. Suggested Retail $60.00
To the untrained eye, the Great Plains consists of a vast unbroken sameness. It appears empty. Only those who know and respect the land realize what bounty it has to offer. For here beneath the stretching sky are the grazing lands of the mighty bison, and for hundreds of years, it has been here that the Great Plains Indians have sought the shaggy-maned beast for everything including food, clothing, and shelter. But the "sport" has caught on with the immigrants, and the herds, once plentiful, now are few.
In Plate Seven of his Footsteps of the Brave series, artist Harry Schaare presents a trail-worn shaman seeking guidance from the spirits. It is fall, and the bison have yet to arrive in numbers. Never in the tribe's collective memory have the herds stayed away so long, and there is fear among the people that the bison spirits have grown angry.
But, as he descends the rocky slope, the shaman is calmed by the certain belief that he will find a great herd of bison. For he has chosen his trail well. He has selected a path with heart. And as long as his people choose the same reverent trail, they will always survive and flourish.
The creation of the fine collector's plate you have just acquired and whose authenticity is certified by this document is the result of work by an international cadre of skilled artisans. After the plate art was created in the United States, a fine ceramic transfer, incorporating pigments carefully chosen to faithfully re-create the vibrant beauty of the artist's original, was created in France and Germany and permanently fired into the tine Japanese porcelain plate body at more than 1,460° Fahrenheit by talented craftsmen and craftswomen in the United States.
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