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Show Fig. 135 Uintah Pinetree Indian. Uintah-Ouray Reservation. Julious Twohy. Oil on canvas. Ca. 1955. H: 128.75 cm. W: 41.25 cm. Collection of Gordon Harmston, Jr., Roosevelt. Seventy-year-old Twohy, who began painting portraiture at age forty, posed as his own model for this painting. The Ute chief symbolizes the three bands of the Northern Ute and is dressed in Plains Indian costume. Fig. 136 Riderless Horse. Fillmore. Thelma Peterson. Oil on canvas. Ca. 1965. L: 65 cm. W: 55 cm. Collection of DUP, Territorial Statehouse, Fillmore. The use of symbol and myth in folklife painting is clearly displayed here. The combination of traditional death symbols with contemporary history is of special interest. 134 |