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With burning California white sage and holding eagle feathers, Ron Sixbears Alec, of the Big Sandy Rancheria, performed a purification blessing for "The Acorn Gatherer," after the bronze statue by sculptor Evany Zirul was unveiled Friday morning at Clovis and Shaw avenues in Clovis.
The life-sized statue, depicting a Native American Indian woman gathering acorns, with a baby on her back, is along the Clovis Heritage Walk.
It stands atop a 12-foot-wide replica of a mortar stone, which represents the way American Indians ground their food, and is next to an oak tree, which will bear acorns.
The statue is the first cultural sculpture installed at the city's Cultural Heritage Arts Plaza, and the fourth placed on the Old Town Trail.
The city envisions the Shaw and Clovis corner to contain several culturally relevant sculptures representing the community's diversity.
