"The conception of many Artists who paint the Indian [is to] see only the Eagle feathers. And their imagination gets the Idea that they have grown out of the head of the Indian. And [they] forget that the Eagle feather has grown out of the body of a Bird. I find that the American Artist paints only the overdecorated Indian. My Artist friends do not see the real Indian."

Stan Steiner. Spirit Woman: The Diaries and Paintings of Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuņez, (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1980).

not dated, ink on paper
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Arthur and Shifra Silberman Collection, acc. 96.17.312

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