"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

25 June 2019

Lineage.

Curtis, Warrior's Feathered Headdress, Cowichan, 1913


These are not Methodist Indians, warriors with a lineage that owed nothing to the white man.  We did not live upon the same earth that they did.  And we flatter ourselves when we think we understand them.  To pity these men is to pity the gods.

Jim Harrison

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