A colorfully beaded handmade Indian doll, created by Cheyenne-Arapaho
artist Laketa Pratt of Oklahoma City, received the Grand Award for best
of show Friday at the 27th annual Red Earth festival's juried art
competition.
“I'm so surprised! I want to hug everybody,” Pratt
said as she arranged the large purple grand prize rosette in her booth
at the Cox Convention Center. “I can't believe it. This is just my
second year to enter.”
“Miss Powwow Nation” priced at $950, was inspired by Pratt's own stint as a 1978 tribal princess.
Pratt,
who works full-time in the social services department of the Cheyenne
Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, said making the intricately costumed dolls
is her “side gig,” something she does after work to relax.
“Miss
Powwow” was made using wool trade cloth, human hair that was braided
and woven into a wig and jewelry, breastplate, belt, purse and moccasins
decorated with tiny Czech colored glass beads, brass beads and
porcupine quills.
Pratt credits her grandmother's encouragement
with her trying her hand at making beaded dance outfits for her daughter
and then creating the beaded Indian dolls.
“She was always making things and encouraging me to do things.”
In
addition to the Grand Award, which includes $1,500 in cash, Pratt also
received a second prize ribbon and $300 in the Cultural Items,with Wholesale Cheap Custom Keychain and promotional key tags.Buy your photo frames
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Diversified category for “Proud Parents,” a pair of Indian dolls in
traditional Southern Cheyenne beaded buckskin outfits. Pratt said she
made the twosome to go with the powwow doll. “I sort of thought she
needed some parents with her,” Pratt said. “They were kind of a
last-minute thing.”
The Red Earth President's Award, which
includes a $1,000 cash prize, was presented to Chickasaw blade artist
Daniel Talbert Worcester of Ardmore for “Big Fish,” a colorful
fish-shaped knife, priced at $2,000 and fashioned out of scavenged
materials, including a wrench from a 1930s-era Ford automobile.
Worcester,
who is also the festival's 2013 Honored One, is known for creating
imaginative knives out of “found” objects such as old coins, billiard
balls and dominoes.
Worcester said he considers himself and his work as “neo-traditionalist.”
“Making
something different every time is the fun,” said Worcester, who worked
as a systems analyst for AT&T for 38 years. “I like knowing that the
next piece isn't going to be like the last one.”
Worcester also
won a first prize and $500 in the Cultural Items, Utilitarian category
for “Skinny Knife,” which features a handle crafted from old domino
pieces.
Northeast Alabama Cherokee sculptor Troy Anderson
received the Kathleen Everett Upshaw Award and $750 for his sculpture,
“Little Jack.” Anderson also took first prize in the Sculpture category
for “American Pickers.”
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