Star Liana York - Desert Bloom, Edition of 35

"In the imagined scene behind this sculpture a young Hopi Maiden gazes serenely across her desert homeland before climbing the steep foot-trail leading to her mesa-top dwelling.  She is dressed in traditional attire for daily work:  a handwoven dress designed to leave the shoulder bare (by 1900 many Hopi women were being encouraged by the government and missionaries to wear a calico slip under the dress so that their arms and shoulders were covered).  Her hair is done up in the large whorls that imitate the squash blossom, the symbol for purity, and identify her as a girl of marriageable age." - Star Liana York