CHEROKEE PRINCESS

As I began carving this figure, the intention was an abstract female figure. However, the marble revealed a unique feature of grey veining, so clearly resembling a “feather” on the left side of her head that it changed the direction of the piece. Intuitively at this point I knew she must be a Native American Princess. Her noble, yet kind stance at once reminds of Sacagawea, of all the Iroquois and Cherokee women, and many other tribes of the Eastern United States that showed kindness, wisdom and helpfulness to the early white settlers. Her beauty is enhanced by the dramatic grey veining of the statuary marble.