ORIGINAL Painting NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN POWWOW LIVING NATIVES, Portable Mural, FREE SHIP,Jenni Green Start Price USD 48,000.00 Current Price USD 48,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, September 05, 2008 End Time Monday, September 08, 2008 Location Santa Fe, New Mexico See more about ' ORIGINAL Painting NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN POWWOW' Description POWWOW 12 foot (5 ft. X 12 ft.) Original Painting in 5 Sections. Each Section is framed separately under plexiglass, making this large painting FULLY PORTABLE.   Free Shipping Museum quality materials and framing. An historical painting, one of a kind.Watercolor, self-represented by Artist: Jenni Green REAL NATIVE AMERICANS LIVING NOW. Tribes from across America. Powwow in American Southwest. Here's an unsolicited email comment I received from a Lakota Sioux: To: jennigreen1@yahoo.com Subject: Art Original Painting Native American Powwow Dear paintings-byjenni:Hau Jenni (hello Jenni) hello in the Lakota language. I am called Matoiha or Smiling Bear. Never before have my eyes beheld such beauty as reflected through the brush strokes of your painting. No words can capture nor can they express how your painting has awakened my Spirit. Truly, Great Spirit has blessed you with an amazing spiritual gift which allows you to express the true nature of our undying Spirits in such a way. I want to tell you how much I enjoy being able to see this wonderful work of art. …… Iyuskinyan wancinyankelo, wakan tanka nici un, nitawa kola matoiha (I am happy to have met you, and may the Great Spirit be with you and guide you, your friend Smiling Bear.) POWWOW was installed temporarily for a year at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM.POWWOW was part of the New Mexico State Governor’s Gallery Tour since 1994, installed by Stuart Ashman, Curator, in the New Mexico State Land Office Building lobby, Santa Fe, N.M.  ALL 15 IMAGES WHICH FOLLOW ARE CLOSEUPS OF INDIVIDUALS WITHIN POWWOW Top 1/3 of POWWOW reflects Spirit world Rainbow is a blessing and protection arching over world Apache Rainbow Dancer says, “everything that is in my Rainbow Dance is in POWWOW.” She wants a 4 ft. print of POWWOW behind her when she performs. POWWOW Top Closeup Deer, Bear, Buffalo, White Calf, Horse: All Spirit ‘Animals. Also Spirit Medicine Bird at Moon, and Spirit Eagle at Sun. Each are in smoke rising from sacred ceremonial TIPI, KIVA, HOGAN. Below in Red Dance Circle dancers dance to honor Spirit Birds And Spirit Animals above. POWWOW Center Right Buffalo Dancer POWWOW Center Left Top image of three: Eagle Dancer. Bottom right image: “Beauty”, is 19” tall. Dancers express joyful celebration of life, gratitude for Sun and Moon, Rain, Beauty of Mountains, Trees all Earth Red Dance Circle is color Earth, Heart, To come from the Heart. The RED ROAD color of Fire Sunset beat of the Drum. POWWOW Center Simply, what POWWOW is about, is painted on chest of the large Mountain Spirit Dancer in the center: “I LOVE YOU’. It is about Native Americans being caretakers of Earth and all creatures. In his dance he is reaching up to Spirit world with Prayer Stick to bring Healing Energy down into Earth, as he turns to face us. See the two women in lower center of Red Dance Circle (a third, not visible in this closeup, is just to the left). In their slow walking/dance around the Circle, walking clockwise in Circle is way of Healing, Oneness. Following the path of the Sun. Participants in deep reverence attain a harmonizing wholeness of life. Just as ALL these dancers of ALL TRIBES dance in this sacred way to Heal Earth. Dance to heal all of us. Dance to encourage all our Spirits to endure. POWWOW Center Left Tiny boy spinning. The Yellow radiating around dancers is also Energy. POWWOW Center Right The young feel this reverence too. Connecting the dancers with music is the flute. It’s song like Flight of birds to Great Spirit. POWWOW flute player 11” tall At right edge of Red Dance Circle POWWOW Right Side Children showing animals they lovingly raised and rodeo. POWWOW Right Side POWWOW Right Side POWWOW Right Side Elder watching Children POWWOW Right Side POWWOW Left Side Powwow Drumming. Time with old and new friends. Families Time to: run, watch and listen POWWOW Left Side POWWOW Left Side Warrior, bottom right, is 18” tall. DRUMMERS Drum beat is heart beat of Earth and all creatures POWWOW Left Side One Big Drum shared by many Drummers Running fun POWWOW shows one whole day. The Sun is moving across the scene POWWOW is presently at the Institute of American Indian Arts (I.A.I.A.), Santa Fe, New Mexico, where it has been on exhibit, by Chuck Dailey, past Director. The I.A.I.A. sent Jenni Green, the Artist, to the Smithsonian in Wash. D.C., for POWWOW to be considered To be in new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, in Wash. D. C. The I.A.I.A. earlier gave Jenni a one-woman show of 35 of her paintings, with her mixed media painting MEDICINE SHIELD (A MANDALA)as the focal point.  MEDICINE SHIELD is sold.    POWWOW is an historical painting to honor  in accurate detail the dances, life, family  closeness, spirituality of Native Americans.         Ceremonial clothes and designs are handmade, often by loved ones. A record for Native Americans, their children and future. To share with all peoples. POWWOW has been embraced by Native American, Pueblo, Navajo, Apache, Plains,  eastern tribes  and Hawaii Native Museum.   It has been on exhibit as part of the Governor’s Gallery Tour, in the New Mexico State Land Office Bldg. Lobby , Santa Fe, N.M. since 1994.    Installed by Stuart Ashman,  Curator, (now on Gov.'s Cabinet, )  MEDICINE SHIELD (A Mandala) was also in Land Office,   sold recently.  This 12 ft wide, 5 ft tall, mural in 5 separate sections, is fully PORTABLE. Not only would POWWOW be a wonderful addition to your private collection, it is also suitable for display in Public Places — United Nations, State Buildings, airports, Museums, Universities, Hotels, Banks; and as focal point of other exhibits. The Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe wants a 6 or 8 foot framed print of POWWOW. The original POWWOW could be exhibited or donated to the Arizona State Capital Building, Phoenix, AZ. Navajo Nation Museum would like to exhibit POWWOW original during the Navajo Nation Fair so people in it could see themselves and bring the families, because of the good likenesses portrayed. Prints of POWWOW are exhibited in the Navajo Nation Museum and San Carlos Apache Museum. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, guided me and exhibits prints of POWWOW. POWWOW prints are in the Taos Tribal Office, homes of Taos Indians, Medicine and Spiritual leaders, and flute player. In home of Navajo Spiritual leader, Native Rights Advocates, Apache Tribal Council Room, where they want a four foot print. Other Pueblo tribes. Urban Intertribal Centers where Indians are so far removed from their ceremonial lands and tribes, in Los Angeles, CA., across the U.S. would like to have 6 ft. framed prints of POWWOW. All 76 Natives in POWWOW were photographed by Jenni, the artist. She drove for ten years, sleeping in her camper 117° weather to -20°, flash floods, lightening storms, sun, snowbound. (loved it all) She found them at Taos Powwow, Gallop Intertribal Festival, Navajo Nation Fair and Rodeo and in the remote desert and mountain areas. Some are dear Indians friends, one is an Indian relative. Healers, Spiritual leaders, Kiva Mother, Jenni traveled with them to sacred all nite ceremonies, days long. Sharing the work preparing for sacred time. Sharing Indians families, children, humor, life, their hospitality, friendship, generosity. Guest in their homes and camps. Riding in truck on dark, snowy cold winter night, -20°, in mountains with Acoma children on Christmas eve. We were putting lighted candles along miles of dark mountain roads of Acoma. Huddling together with children in truck, scared of wolves we could hear howling. Then they fed me in Museum with Acoma workers, sharing their stories. Then at midnite Christmas Eve top of 400’ rock mesa, their Acoma sacred home. That night we were snow bound by blizzard. Cherished memory of young Acoma mother, friend, telling her little ones, “she is friend”, then they would climb on my lap, and in summer, take me to see “their peach tree” up on top sacred rock mesa. Four years to draw and paint POWWOW, finished in ’92. Indians on Earth but far away from me, some on the Other Side, advised me in my dreams and while I painted. As painted, Indians came alive, reached out to me, guiding me. Indians painting themselves – my hands disappeared, I just signed POWWOW after they completed it. They captured me with their Spirit, color, gesture, presence, power. My joy was in living with them for awhile. Feeling their emotions, moving inside them dancing ---- was carried away by the flute’s song and the beat of the drum. Feeling the warmth of their Sun, connection with Nature, Earth. Indians in my painting were alive to me. I painted the dance circle first and  the Indians I had painted showed me the rest of the way.. finished the lower 2/3rds and let them teach me what the Spirit Side above should be. POWWOW is not only circular, but also a spiral – starting on left side of Rainbow, go clockwise around Rainbow, then along corral fence, around dance circle to left side, clockwise around the dance circle to large center dancer and around him. Spiral of connections. Ceremonial dancing connects us to Earth and Great Spirit. I hope POWWOW reveals the spiritual strength, vitality, humor, beauty of these living Native Americans. Survivors, enduring despite all their tragic history. Tribes united together, strong and beautiful. Survivors helping us learn to protect and save this precious Earth. Thank you for your interest. Hope you will bid soon. I can send  prints and  more information if you are serious. Jenni has original paintings in nine ebay auctions at this time. Please take a look: Native American Indian POWWOW- a 12 foot painting in five sections- (it's fully PORTABLE);MEDICINE SHIELD Native American Indian, a MANDALA; SEACLOUD Tugboat; YOUNG BLACK CHILD ;YOUNG BLACK WOMAN ;COWBOY W/GUITAR ;MAN IN HAT ;ASLEEP IN THE PARK. Thank you for your interest. Jenni. Here's some scans of documents referring to POWWOW. Place a Bid!