Native American artists Leonard and Amailia Fourhawks handmade this beautiful leather dress. Amailia Fourhawks has put 10 brass buttons on each sleeve. This dress is all hand sewn.
Dress Measurements:
Length: 51 1/2" Inches
Fringe: 3 1/2" Inches
Width: (center were black and white leather connect): 20" Inches
Buttons: 3/4" Inches
FireHawk Native American Studio
Leonard and Amalia FourHawks
Leonard FourHawks is Mohawk and Northern Cheyenne grew up in New York with his extended family. His grandmother instilled in him a love for the old stories that she would tell him for knowledge and entertainment. He worked with the family making bone jewelry and leather goods that the would sell at Pow Wows. Keeping his families traditions he also became a traditional story teller.
Amalia is from the Chiricahua descent. She grew up in a family that encouraged her to love all different types of art. She learned how to sculpt, paint, and specialized in beadwork.
The two artist met at a Native Art shoo and soon were working together combining their different mediums to create new designs. Taking inspiration from Leonard's Grandmother's stories they have created a series of masks based on the characters in her stories. Each face is carefully hand sculpted in clay allowing the clay to become who it wants to be. After firing, the face is decorated with feathers, leather and fur to become an image of the story.
They continue to expand their repertoire of masks and tribally inspired items such as beaded leather clothing, bone breastplates, and beaded trade pipes. Their work is shown and sold in galleries and museums across the country.
Leonard and Amailia Fourhawk have been working together now for twenty years and have created some of the most exquisite pieces of art.
This dress was entered in the:
87th Annual Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial
in Gallup, New Mexico and took 1st place. Ribbon is attached.
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This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 12 March, 2009.
