Horses - Symbol Of Loyalty, Power & Devotion

Horses - Symbol Of Loyalty, Power & Devotion

Photographer: Dannie - Photography & Digital-Art
Models: Alexandra Prinz and Dragana V.
www.thedannie.at

We believe that many people have a certain stereotype in mind when they think about Native Americans. Most people have the picture of a proud warrior sitting on a horse with his beautiful handcrafted headdress on. However, not only were the American Indian headdresses important for the indigenous people, their animals were also, especially their horses.

Each animal had a certain meaning for the Native Americans and played important roles in their belief system. Horses played an important role in their daily lives.

Indigenous Indians were amazed when the Europeans introduced them to horses back in the 15th and 16th centuries. They found themselves so much more powerful when they were riding on a horse and they saw horses as godlike creatures. Since they were so impressed by these animals they started to draw them as symbols in order to communicate them to further generations.

For Native Americans, horses held a meaning of devotion, power, strength, and mobility. Also for their enemies it must have been an impressive statement when many warriors rode towards them to fight while proudly wearing their headdresses that they’d earned in former battles.

To honor the importance of horses for the indigenous Indians, we want to share the beautiful pictures that the talented Dannie took. It’s simply stunning how she presented our Rasta Style Indian Headdress 90cm and our White Indian Headdress 90cm.