Artist:Howard Terpning. RELEASE DATE November. 2006! Title: "Medicine Shields of the Blackfoot". Limited Edition "Canvas Giclee" signed and numbered by the aritst. Limited to a very low edition size of only 650 images (on canvas) worldwide. Image size is 22" x 23". Mint Condition! Never framed and is new stock directly from the publisher. *Be one of the few clients who can own this piece on canvas! Buyer gets FREE! shipping and insurance. Shipped flat for your best protection in transit. *The canvas is already stretched around museum quality stretcher bars and ready for framing. Thank you. Jim Duff~ Early River Gallery.

   About the artist: Quite simply, Howard Terpning is one of the most lauded painters of Western art. His awards are so numerous and he is honored with them so often, that the list is too long to present.Why such praise? Passion, compassion, devotion and respect for his subject matter, extraordinary talent in palette and brushstroke, an exceptional ability to evoke emotion both in his paintings and from those viewing them--all this and more has made Terpning the "Storyteller of the Native American."

  About this Piece:"Among the Blackfoot people the shield was the most cherished and protective posseession. Above all,it was a medicine object.Medicine shields have dream or vision origins.Making a shield was a very lengthy process involving several people,but it had to start with the hide taken from the neck and shoulder of a bull buffalo.Once it was completed it was painted and decorated to conform to the owner's dream.When the shield was not carried by the owner on a war party, it was placed on a tri-pod outside the teepee on sunny days, and as the sun moved,the tri-pod was turned so that the face of the shield was always in direct sunlight."