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Rapid City
South Dakota
Main Street / 6th Street
(NW corner)
Hunkayapi
Tying on the Eagle Plume
Dale Lamphere
2008
 
Description
Bronze sculpture depicting an older Lakota woman placing a sacred eagle plume onto a younger woman. The sculpture depicts the Lakota Sioux philosophy that all two-legged and four-leggeds are spiritually connected.
Signature
D Lamphere
© 2007
Annotation
The statue replaces a controversial statue "He is, they are" by Glenna Goodacre showing a Native man with his hands tied behind.
Sculptor
Dale Claude Lamphere, American sculptor of Sturgis, South Dakota (
Website
).
Sources & Information
Rapid City Journal, 19 March 2008,
Prairie Edge replaces controversial statue
.
Tags
Town:
Rapid City
State:
South Dakota
Country:
United States
Indian
Lamphere, Dale
Woman with child
Locatie (N 44°4'52" - W 103°13'37")
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Item Code:
ussd30
; Photograph: 20 October 2010
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