Fire it up! Charger with Spirit Horses

First Nations inspiration!

Compare this image with my former post of March 21, 2014, where I displayed my unfired Spirit Horse charger (large display platter).

After the kiln firing, the colours really pop!

The inspiration for the designs on all of my “Indian ponies” derives from Blackfoot First Nations. The Blackfoot are renowned horse people. The ziz-zag design was used on their war horses, as one symbol indicating a “thunderbolt,” to my recollection. This symbol gave the horse dramatic, frightening presence on the field of battle, and denoted the horse’s ability to stop, “turn on a dime” and “zig-zag” or dart about the enemy, with its rider.