Its totality of 1,682 pieces of exotic wood required weeks of intense labor, planning and woodworking skill. Chickasaw artist Vicki Lynn Somers counted them: 608 pieces of maple, 589 pieces of wenge, 380 pieces of bloodwood and 105 pieces of yellow heart. She titled the work “Ittapatkachi Wooden Bowl.” Ittapatkachi is Chickasaw for “pieced together.” […]
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