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Allan Capron Houser or Haozous (June 30, 1914 – August 22, 1994) was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter, and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. [2] He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century.
The Chiricahua Apache, also written as Chiricagui, Apaches de Chiricahui, Chiricahues, Chilicague, Chilecagez, and Chiricagua, were given that name by the Spanish.The White Mountain Coyotero Apache, including the Cibecue and Bylas groups of the Western Apache, referred to the Chiricahua by the name Ha'i’ą́há, while the San Carlos Apache called them Hák'ą́yé which means ″Eastern ...
Allan Houser (Warms Springs Chiricahua Apache) became one of the most prominent Native sculptors of the 20th century. Though he worked in wood and stone, Houser is most known for his monumental bronze sculptors, both representational and abstract.
2 Selected pictures list. Toggle the table of contents. ... Jicarilla Apache man, ... Chiricahua Apache, 1887.
Cochise (Chiricahua Apache), Geronimo (Chiricahua Apache), and; Chief Joseph (Nez Perce). There are also busts of Stand Watie and John Ross, Cherokee chiefs who took different sides in the American Civil War, Confederate and Union, respectively. Another military figure is Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker , the highest-ranking army officer of Indian ...
It was named after the legendary Chiricahua Apache war chief Cochise, who was a pivotal figure in the Apache Wars before his death in 1874. [3] The county seat was Tombstone until 1929, when it moved to Bisbee. Cochise County is almost a perfect square in the southeasternmost corner of the state: 83 by 84 miles (134 by 135 km).
Like other Apache peoples they often identify simply as Ndé / Nndéí / Ndéne / Ndéńde ("The People", "Apaches"). Neighboring Apache bands called the Mescalero Nadahéndé ("People of the Mescal"), because the mescal agave (Agave parryi) (Apache: naa’da / ’inaa’da / na’da) was a staple food source for them. In times of need and ...
1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri features Native American art, including paintings by Silver Horn [46] and Narcissa Chisholm Owen , art by Geronimo (Chiricahua Apache), and many others; 1906–1915: Ho-Chunk artist Angel De Cora serves as director of Carlisle Indian School's Native American art program [47]