Original Acrylic on Paper - Background Check Culture Application of the earth paint

Application of the earth paint requires skill and patience

featuring a rider and stars and eagle feathers decorating the United States seal

Avery’s entire family helps create quillwork and pass down the tradition to the next generation

The companion piece

Original Acrylic on Paper - Background Check Culture Application of the earth paintSeven Fires Art is pleased to offer for sale this work by noted Lakota Artist Merle Locke! Background Check Merle says, "These days on the Pine Ridge reservation, a background check is done when someone applies for a job. This painting represents a background check of our ancestors, and it reveals the history of how we were, noble and living a good life. The couple is highly decorated, showing they were well established and skilled. The buffalo skull