These are my personal collection related to one of the greatest Native American Artist, FRANCIS BLACKBEAR BOSIN, Wichita, Kansas, 1921 – 1980.

In this collection is a signed, limited edition cast bronze sculpture on walnut wood base with brass plaque modeled after the artist's forty-four feet tall Corten steel public installation of the same name situated at the confluence of the Arkansas river and Little Arkansas river in Wichita, Kansas. This tabletop bronze sculpture is signed in the casting and numbered 169 from an edition of 250, titled “KEEPER OF THE PLAINS.”

Included is the book titled “Blackbear Bosin – KEEPER OF THE INDIAN SPIRIT” by David Simmonds, PhD.

Also, a pinback button of the MAAIC INTER-TRIBAL 28^th ANNUAL POW-WOW commemorating the INDIAN CENTERS 20^TH ANNIVERSARY, July 26-27, 1996.

The limited-edition bronze sculpture is 11 ¾” x 3 3/8” x 3 3/8”.

No damage to the sculpture, but the walnut base has light scuff marks that are not distracting.

Member: Wichita Artists Guild (v. pres., 1963-1966); Wichita Advertising Assn.

Work: Wichita Art Mus.; Wichita Art Assn.; Philbrook Art Ctr.; Heard Mus., Phoenix; Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, WY. Commissions: sculpture design for city, Kansas Gas & Electric, Wichita, 1969; mural, commissioned by Schafer, Schirmer & Eflin for Farmers Credit Land Bank, Wichita, 1972; painting, Southern Plains Mus., Anadarko, 1972.

Exhibitions: Festival of Arts, White House, Wash., DC, 1965; Whitney Gallery of Western Art, 1966; Nat. Indian Ann., Philbrook Art Ctr., 1967; Heard Mus., 1967; Wichita Art Assn., 1971. Awards: Grand award, Philbrook Art Ctr., 1959-1963; Waite Phillips Special Indian Artists Award, 1967.