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1989 Lakota Sioux Big Horn Sheep Sculpture by Halsey

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1989 Lakota Sioux Big Horn Sheep Sculpture by Halsey
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Lakota Sioux Big Horn Sheep Sculpture, Signed by Nick Halsey, dated 1989. Measures 7''H x 9''. Artist Bio: self-taught Indian artist, has been working for 22 years in an art medium called ''clay sculpturing.'' He was born in Fort Yates, ND, on the Standing Rock Reservation in 1949, and is an enrolled member of the Hunkpapa Lakota the same tribe and reservation as the great medicine man Sitting Bull. He learned the basics of his art from his former wife. Halsey uses traditional methods to make clay sculptures. However, instead of making pots, dishes and other typical Pueblo art pieces, he creates human and animal forms including buffalo, bears and eagles. Through the use of common material such as tree bark and animal dung, Halsey is able to vary the color of his sculptures from the traditional Santa Clara red and black to white, brown, ebony and other contemporary colors.