"In Her Father's Footsteps" depicts a six year old girl, dressing up like her father, the Chief. She is holding his eagle feather bonnet on her head and wears his beaded moccasins which are a little too big. Her favorite doll is at her feet. Her buckskin dress with beaded yoke is belted with a beaded turtle navel amulet bag. Plains Indian mothers saved the umbilical cord of their baby and would sew it into a small animal shaped buckskin bag. This turtle bag was attached to the baby's cradles as its first toy and later worn around the neck or waist and kept for a lifetime as a charm to insure long life. Indians shared a creation legend in which the first human life was carried safely through the water-covered world on the back of a turtle. The cord represented a link between life before birth and after.

Masterwork Bronze with Patina and Paint,
Edition of 100, Sculpted in the Year of 1997