FLAMING STAR                               This painted Tipi shows the skyline of Arches National Park, with a blue sky above the La Sal Mountains. There is a black sun on the smoke flaps, and a flaming star traveling across the sky. The thick black line at the bottom represents the Colorado river. The green band in the middle is a snake with yellow scales, its head on the left side of the door, its body coming out of the other side of the door, stretching around the tipi. The snake carries the souls of the ancestors.  --  Painted in May and June of 2005 by Wayne Bower.

     This camp was set up on the east side of the La Sal mountains near Moab, Ut. There were 10 tipis . It was a beautiful setting but hard to capture in a photograph.Check out my Gallery of Photos.  ---                            Wayne Bower