Hiawatha was a Native American leader and founder of the Iroquois confederacy. He was a follower of The Great Peacemaker, a prophet and spiritual leader, who proposed the unification of the Iroquois peoples. The Iroquois Confederacy is a political and cultural union of several Native American tribes. The union created a powerful alliance of related Iroquoian peoples in Ontario, Quebec, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other places. He was known to be skilled and charismatic, somewhat of a negotiator. He stands in trousers, shirtless and with a cloak draped around his bare shoulders and waist. A lone feather sits atop his long silky black hair. He leans in, listening attentively as he is in the midst of deep discussion. This would make a great gift to any history buff or lover of Native American culture. 100% bronze and handmade, this two-toned brown patina sculpture was cast using the Lost Wax Method" and mounted on a marble base. It features the signature Carl Kauba. Carl Kauba (1865-1922) Austria, was a well-respected sculptor in his own right. He was ranked along with Remington and Charles Marion Russell as one of the best sculptors of American Western subjects, but his work is not as well known to the American public.Kauba studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and academies under Carl Waschmann and Stefan Schwartz until about 1886. It was at this point he is said to have to left for America, but there is some speculation that Kauba never actually visited the U.S. and that his interest in the Old West was inspired by written accounts by well-known authors such as Karl May, whose books set in the Old West were popular in Europe. Of the experts who believe Kauba did visit the U.S., it is believed he completed numerous sketches and notes that he used to base his bronzes once he returned to Austria. His bronzes were all produced in Austria and, like the Remington pieces, were finely detailed.

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