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Narrative: Encircled in radiating auras, this Comanche Virgin Mother and Child extend their arms in prayerful openness and embrace. She wears a painted, fringed buckskin coat. Her necklace consists of several bands of beads as well as a horn cover pipe choker, and the child wears a double Naja— a horseshoe pendant of Navajo origin.
Traditional iconography gives witness to the human face of the Sacred. This Icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, reveals anew that sacred power. It celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of native and Christian peoples of this land.
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