PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Native American Indian Festival

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PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Native American Indian Festival

Date: 01/26/2013
by: Rachel S. O'Hara | Staff Photographer

David Wittmar tells his life story through a traditional hoop dance.
Randall Three Hawk Atcitty poses with his specialty sauces.
Balms and salves for a wide variety of ailments were on sale at Native + Natural’s tent.
Mark Barfoot plays one of his flutes at his tent Wolf Creek Art Friday, Jan. 25, at the Native American Indian Festival at the Sarasota Fairgrounds.
Small booties like these made by Debbie Silvas of P & D Native American Art can take up to two days to create.
A display of dream catchers inside one of the many tents set up at the Native American Indian Festival at the Sarasota Fairgrounds.
Southern Horse plays the drum for the dancers.
Keith Sharphead performs the Prairie Chicken Dance.
Jack Schmitt, 7, and Jack Sugar, 8, show off all the Native American items they bought while at the Native American Indian Festival Friday, Jan. 25, at the Sarasota Fairgrounds.
Southern Horse encouraged the audience to come out and dance with Rita Horse and David Wittmar Friday, Jan. 25, at the Native American Indian Festival.
Ella Hess, 8, Isabella Swelland, 7, and Lauren Delknap, 7, have fun playing tunes on the flutes they bought at the festival.
Native American style sterling silver and gemstone jewelry was on display inside Nez B’s Jewelry tent.
People enjoyed a wide variety of Native American food including buffalo burgers.
Ndezolth Sauceda, 6, works on making a dream catcher as she sits in the trunk of her family’s van. Sauceda’s family traveled all the way from Santa Fe, NM to attend the festival.
People browse the Native American dream catchers, stones, musical instruments and jewelry inside one of the many tents at the festival.