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Southwestern Line
Bust
Indian Princess
Pocahontas Bust
by Arkahdia Arts
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Of all of Powhatan's children, only "Pocahontas" is known,
primarily because she became the hero of Euro-Americans.
"Pocahontas" was a nickname, her real name was Matoaka.
The legend is that she saved a heroic John Smith from being
clubbed to death by her father in 1607
- she would have been
about 10 or 11 at the time.
Smith wrote after his winter stay with Powhatan's people,
he had been kept comfortable and treated in a friendly
fashion as an honored guest of Powhatan and Powhatan's brothers.
In April 1614, Matoaka, married John Rolfe and became "Rebecca Rolfe".
Shortly after, they had a son, whom they named Thomas Rolfe.
2 years later on the spring of 1616, Rolfe took her to England
where she was wined and dined and taken to theaters and used
by the Virginia Company of London to promote support for the colony.
The Pocahontas story has a sad ending.
Rolfe, his young wife, and their son set off for Virginia in March
of 1617, but "Rebecca" had to be taken off the ship at
Gravesend. She died there on March 21, 1617, at the age of 21.
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Pocahontas the Indian Princess Bust WS181
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The early frontier was celebrated in poems and carvings as the frontier moved westward there were stories about Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and other explorers. The battle of the Alamo in Texas brought forth a surge of stories. In 1849 Emerson Bennett's 'The Prairie Flower' made a hero of Kit Carson, mountain man and explorer. This eventually lead to the creation of stone and bronze artifacts that adorn most houses today. These artificats keep alive the days of the Ole West.
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Arkahdia Arts Studio,
a European immigrant now living in New York started a studio dedicated to casting these pieces of Art. By focusing the business on two goals;(1) to save pieces which have been produced in another medium in bygone times, and (2) to bring new artist's work to the public, the product lines have prospered, delighted and excited.
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