From The Trail of Painted Ponies.
Made of resin. Measures 6" high.
Artist: Cathy Smith
Cathy Smith is a historian and scholar of the American West. She is
also an authentic costumer who has worked on such films as Dancing with
Wolves and All the Pretty Horses. Her original Pony was adorned with a
Crow woman’s Horse Trappings Outfit, circa 1870s. The keyhole-shaped
ornament on the forehead was a classic Crow design, the beaded rosette
surrounded with horsehair tassels and wrapped in dyed cotton string. Made
to carry a short buffalo lance or captured cavalry sword, the case was
fashioned out of buffalo rawhide painted with natural earth pigments.
Outfits similar to this are still paraded today at the Crow Fair in Crow
Agency.
Designer, historian and scholar of the American West, with expertise in
Plains Indian Art and Culture, Cathy Smith has written extensively,
non-fiction as well as screen plays, consulted on a majority of the
Western genre films of the last twelve years, created and designed
authentic costumes for film, western artists and documentaries, and
lectured at museums and historical re-enactments nationwide
