Dave McGary

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Grandmother's Heirloom
Study 19 1/2"h
Bronze with Patina and Paint


"Grandmother’s Heirloom" depicts a young Lakota woman displaying a star quilt made for her by her grandmother. Fashioned in the traditional pattern, the quilt is filled mostly by an eight-pointed Morning Star with several smaller stars around the border. Delighted with the gift, the excited teen has partially wrapped herself in the soft comfort of the heirloom, draping part of the quilt across her shoulder as she holds out the rest of it to admire. The young woman is wearing a buckskin dress with a yoke and the moccasins on her feet both beaded in the pattern of her clan.