A Monumental Sculpture

Sep 7, 2016

Our September/October issue includes a story on Dale Lamphere’s Dignity, a 50-foot sculpture depicting a Native American woman wrapped in a star quilt. Its unveiling is scheduled for September 17 on a Missouri River bluff near Chamberlain. Bernie Hunhoff visited the Spirited Winds Tatanka Ranch near Scenic where Lamphere and a team of welders worked this summer. His photos accompanied the story, but here are a few more that didn’t make the magazine.

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Dale Lamphere poses with a small scale model of the sculpture’s star quilt.
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The skirt pattern is shown in tissue paper.
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Lamphere shows a plan for the woman’s bodice.
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The same portion of the sculpture is shown to scale.
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Lamphere poses with Steven Hunhoff, Bernie Hunhoff’s grandson and son of Katie Hunhoff, our publisher.

Comments

08:37 pm - Sat, January 25 2020

Robin May said:

Beautiful! Most of my growing-up years were in SD my Dad worked on the I90 bridge at Chamberlain. I’m looking for a table-sized statue of “Dignity.” Is this possible?
Thanks,
Robin May