by Harvey Rattey
Harvey told me about the Native Americans’ burials in his home country, the Hi-Line near the Montana-Canada border. In the early days, bodies were wrapped in rawhide and placed in trees. Before Harvey was born, the government decreed that the bodies could no longer be left this way. As a result the People placed their loved ones in government-issued wagons and left them on the prairie, wrapped in the same tradition. The woman in this scene is placing death moccasins (beaded on the bottom) on her husband’s feet in preparation for his journey. ~Pamela
29″ x 32″ x 14″
Limited edition of 50
$30,000