Santa Fe Basket Weavers

Alabaster stone and bronze. 12 inches high by 3 inches by six inches. The lower part, the skirts of the basket weavers, is alabaster stone. The shawls/baskets/heads are bronze. The bronze sections fits on top of the stone. The bronze was polished to its gold color to pick up the gold in the stone. White patina was applied then wiped.

This sculpture was inspired by a photo in an ad for Santa Fe New Mexico in Sunset Magazine. Apparently, there is a life size sculpture in Santa Fe of four female basket weavers. The original depicts the women facing each other at an angle, they each have the same hair style and are not wearing shawls as in my depiction. A friend asked if this was a Christmas sculpture due to the designs on the baskets. The designs on the baskets are representations of designs I found in a text entitled American Indian Design and Decoration, a resource I use for most of the designs I use.
I am going to Albuquerque and Santa Fe in July and I hope to see the life size sculpture then.