GFA Blessing the Future
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Guidance From Above - "Blessing the Future" by artist Bill Jaxon.
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$42.00
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Guidance From Above - "Blessing the Future" by artist Bill Jaxon. Third issue in this series -- Bradford exchange, production date 1994. Plate size approx. 8 inches. Suggested Retail $60.00.
It has been a long and tense night. Sky Wolf, warrior-shaman for a band of Kiowa-Apaches, anxiously paces. His wife, Laughing Wind, is giving birth to their first child in the tipi below. Many do not survive birth, hut the year has been good, and Laughing Wind is strong. Still, Sky Wolf worries.
Suddenly, as the first blush of dawn tints the endless sky, a baby's cry pierces the silence. Soon, the smiling midwife brings the newborn boy to the proud, awe-struck father.
Filled with wonder, Sky Wolf unwraps the boy from his swaddling of soft doeskin and lifts him to the heavens, calling, "Spirits of my forefathers! Look upon your blood and flesh! Yusn, the Great Giver of Life has blessed our family with a son whom I will name..." Sky Wolf pauses, seeking inspiration. The sun breaks from behind a cloud bank, and he sees a vision of an ancestor spirit smiling down proudly in the shimmering light.
"His name is Pride of the Morning!" A sunbeam streams from the heavens onto the baby, a benediction of strength, wealth, and great fame among all the tribes from the mighty Spirits of the Sky.
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 fine Japanese porcelain plate body at more than 1,460° Fahrenheit by talented craftsmen and craftswomen in the United States.
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