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KEVIN POURIER<br />
OGLALA LAKOTA<br />
SOUTH DAKOTA, USA<br />
BUFFALO HORN ARTIST<br />
VISITING ARTIST, 2005<br />
When I started<br />
making buffalo horn<br />
items, I was beginning<br />
a journey that<br />
would lead me to<br />
finding out many<br />
things about myself,<br />
my Lakota people<br />
and lifeways that<br />
would influence my<br />
life in a great way.<br />
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My participation in <strong>the</strong> NMAI Fellowship<br />
program introduced me to several new<br />
ideas on how things were made with buffalo<br />
horn. The horn cups I recently started to<br />
make and <strong>the</strong> small buffalo horn spoons<br />
that each individual owned, I have begun<br />
making those also. Being able to hold<br />
and examine things that were made by my<br />
relatives had a dramatic effect on my<br />
understanding <strong>of</strong> what this material really<br />
meant to <strong>the</strong> Lakotas. I saw <strong>the</strong> care and<br />
hard work that went into making objects<br />
created out <strong>of</strong> love for each o<strong>the</strong>r. I had<br />
always known how things were made to be<br />
given away, but to see <strong>the</strong>m firsthand and<br />
realize that <strong>the</strong>y are as beautiful as any<br />
art made today made me realize just how<br />
wonderful our lifeways really are.
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