Monday, June 28, 2010

What is life?

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"Title not known" [Sacred Buffalo], © 1980's Norval Morrisseau
/Click on image to Enlarge/
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"A little while and I will be gone from among you. Whither, I cannot tell. From nowhere we came; into nowhere we go.
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
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Cheef Crowfoot (1930-1890)
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• Issapóómahksika, "Crow-big-foot" (Blackfoot)
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>>> Reference post:
- Symbology of Norval Morrisseau's Art (Part III)
--[Prophecy Lines].-

* The acrylic painting in this post: "Title not known" [Sacred Buffalo], 36"x60", © 1980's Norval Morrisseau /Private collection/

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