Hidatsa Earth Blanket by Pendleton Legends and earthy

and earthy

While she is alone with the spirits

always returning to Vancouver

she began to draw as a means of silently amusing herself and staying out of her foster families' way

Hidatsa Earth Blanket by Pendleton Legends and earthyThe photographer Edward S. Curtis created an invaluable photographic and written record of every major Native America tribe west of the Mississippi around the turn of the century in striking, sepia toned images. This pattern is based on one of his photos, and embodies the elements of earth and sky. The grey triangular step pattern in the center is a mountain design, and geometric motifs symbolize wheat, grass and seed. Crosses represent the four