Angelina, (sculpture).

Angelina, (sculpture).

Knox, Jim, sculptor.

Angelina, (sculpture).

Little Angel, (sculpture).

1986. Copyrighted 1986.

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete, stone.

Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. x 93 in. x 63 in.; Base: approx. 42 x 112 x 81 in.

(On back of woman's dress:) JIM KNOX (On back hem of priest's robe:) (copyright symbol) 1986 (On plaque on base:) ANGELINA/In 1690, when Spain's Franciscian (sic) Fathers founded Mission San Francisco de los Tejas in East Texas, they found a young Indian girl living with her people beside a stream. The priest found her a willing ally for carrying the Catholic faith to the Indians and named her "Angelina (Little Angel)" and the stream "the Angelina river"./Angelina accompanied the priest to Mexico for further studies, but eventually returned to East Texas to keep Christianity alive among the Indians. She also befriended early French explorers./Angelina died in the early 1700's. Her grave site is unknown. In 1846, when Angelina County was founded, it was named for the Indian maiden and the Angelina River./Bob Bowman signed

Three full-length figures in bronze. A Franciscan friar is seated on a rock on the proper right of the grouping. He wears a long monk's robe and has tonsured hair. On his proper left, in the center of the grouping, is a portrait of Angelina, an Indian woman of the Tejas tribe. She wears a dress decorated with cowrie shells. She holds an eagle feather in her proper right hand and a book in her proper left hand. To her proper left, across from the monk, is an Indian man. He sits on the ground, leaning back on his proper left hand. His proper right knee is raised and his proper right arm rests on his knee. He holds a long stick in his proper right hand. The sculpture stands on a concrete aggregate base.

History -- United States -- Texas

Ethnic -- Indian -- Tejas

Occupation -- Religion -- Missionary

Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Lufkin

Pitzer Garrison Civic Center, Director's Office, 601 North Second, Lufkin, Texas 75901

The sculpture was selected by the Angelina County Sesquicentennial Commission competition. Funds for the sculpture, which cost $65,000, were raised from community donations. IAS files contain copy of articles from Longview (TX) News Journal, Dec. 13, 1986; and "The State of the Art", Vol. III, No. V, Feb. 5, 1986 (Houston, TX).

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas survey, 1993.

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