Our True Forefathers is a tribute to Native Americans forever captured in a rare turquoise stone. The turquoise stone is three feet tall and represents over 106,455 karats of natural gemstone. The sculpturing is by far the largest gemstone undertaking by WINSTON in his career.
This three-foot-tall stone represents over 106,455 karats of gemstone and some six years of work by Winston. Claws of Bronze, Tail feathers of Carrara marble and surrounded by N.A.S.A. quality “Stealth Cockpit” Lucite. This sculpture has captured in stone eight famous Native Americans.
Now showing at Kemo Sabe 217 S. Galena St. Aspen, Co.
Sale Price. $2,000,000.00
Crazy Horse
Mouth open, (Lakota), a chief leader in the battle of “The Little Big Horn”, Sioux Reservation.
Red Cloud
“Red Cloud’s War” at Boseman Road stopped the Gold Rush (Oglala), Sioux Reservation.
Cochise
A great leader of the (Apache) Chiricahua tribe who led many guerrilla war raids form a Mexico-base home.
Osceola
The great chief of the Seminole tribe in now the State of Florida. Known for his defiant fashion of signing a peace treaty with his knife driven through it and the table it lay on, Osceola was imprisoned and later released to cause havoc and death for many troops and settlers.
Geronimo
Following the capture of Cochise, this (Apache), also of Chiricahua descent, was a fighter of the Calvary beyond all compare.
See-non-ty-a
An (Iowa) medicine man, one who searches for new lands, moved from Iowa to Northern Kansas.
Curley
A famous (Crow) scout for Custer hated by Crazy Horse and one very luck scout that lived to tell of the famous battle, “Little Big Horn”.
Chief Joseph
A famous (Nez Perce) leader of his Sioux clan, fighting all the way to the Canadian border only to admit defeat for his people. “Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”
