CUSTOM CHOPPER REVS UP SWAIA AUCTION.Byline: SANTANA LOPEZ BY SANTANA LoPEZ Thanks to Elizabeth Stiers, the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts' annual gala will have even more of a roar than usual. Stiers has donated a custom chopper that belonged to her late husband, Nick Schulz, to be auctioned off to the highest bidder HIGHEST BIDDER, contracts. He who, at an auction, offers the greatest price for the property sold. 2. The highest bidder is entitled to have the article sold at his bid, provided there has been no unfairness on his part. . The one-of-a-kind chopper is the latest in a line of amazing auction items that help SWAIA raise money to support Native art and culture. "This is quite a gem," SWAIA marketing and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most coordinator Staci Golar said about the motorcycle. Like the art to be featured at the gala, the motorcycle, valued at $40,000, is itself a masterpiece. The custom-painted V-twin softail was built by Nevada's Mondo mon·do Slang adj. Enormous; huge: a mondo list of pizza toppings. adv. Extremely; very: a mondo big mistake. Porras, whose bikes have been featured on the Discovery Channel. The artist only makes 10 such bikes every year. The bike was Schulz's passion, Stiers said. "He met Mondo, and actually went out to Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. and spent time him while it was being built," she said of her husband. After Schulz's death, Stiers decided to give the bike to SWAIA because she and her husband shared a love of Native culture and art. "I thought, if I'm going to give it away, I'm literally going to give it away," Stiers said. "I'm not going to sell it cheap to somebody I don't even know." All types of Native art enthralled en·thrall tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls 1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience. 2. To enslave. Stiers and her husband, which is why she decided to give the chopper to SWAIA out of all possible nonprofit organizations. "We were married by a Sioux medicine man, who also did his death ceremony. He became more at peace with dying after that," Stiers of her husband, who died of a brain tumor Brain Tumor Definition A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue in the brain. Unlike other tumors, brain tumors spread by local extension and rarely metastasize (spread) outside the brain. only 17 months into their marriage. "That's why I picked the Indian arts for the bike because I knew it was going to help out a cause that he believed in, and that made his life enjoyable and the end of his life easier." The beloved bike is sure to have bidders revving up their engines at the auction. "I never rode the motorcycle myself," Stiers said. "But the motorcycle was his pride and joy, and that's why I hung on to it for so long." To make the chopper even more Indian Market-worthy, SWAIA, is adding a few extras. Dine artist Cody Sanderson has made a sterling silver "back-off" buckle (like the one he designed for the biker movie Wild Hogs) and a "solar flare" bracelet, while Fritz Casuse, who is also Dine, created a biker's keychain in sterling silver, turquoise and peridot peridot or precious olivine Gem-quality, transparent green olivine. Very large crystals are found in Myanmar; peridots from the U.S. are seldom larger than two carats. , according to a SWAIA news release. Dallin Maybee, an Arapaho/Seneca artist, hand-beaded flames to match the chopper's on gauntlet gloves, and his brother, Ken Williams, created a handlebar bag with flames and the SWAIA logo, adding satin ribbons, horsehair horse·hair n. 1. The hair of a horse, especially from the mane or tail. 2. Cloth made of the hair of horses. horsehair Noun and dentalium den·ta·li·um n. pl. den·ta·li·a or den·ta·li·ums Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium. [New Latin Dent shells. And, new-to-market artist Pat Pruitt has donated what SWAIA calls a "spikey, sprockety" bracelet to complete what might be the best set of accessories any chopper ever had. CAPTION(S): See pdf's for caption, graphics and photographer info. |
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