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March 8, 2011
Fidelis Cole bust unveiled

Eleventh bust of Margaret Goode recently found at Smithsonian

The last memory Mary Blackbird Fish had of her grandfather Fidelis Cole was of him dressing in his Osage clothes, getting ready for the Grayhorse In-Lon-Schka dances.

She was about five years old.

Fish, now 84, attended the bust unveiling of Fidelis Cole at the Osage Tribal Museum Feb. 16 and told the attendees, mostly descendants and relatives of Cole, that her “grandfather Fi” was a good man.

February 11, 2011
Historic bust of Fidelis Cole to be unveiled at Osage Tribal Museum

The Osage Tribal Museum is the only site in the world where people can view the busts

The Osage Tribal Museum invites all Osages to witness a historic celebration of the unveiling of the Fidelis Cole bust, the seventh in a series, at the Osage Tribal Museum, at 11 a.m. on Feb. 16.

The sculptures of a number of Osage individuals were made in 1912 in Pawhuska for the Smithsonian’s Department of Natural History.

It is not known why these individuals were chosen, but thirteen molds were made and nine were made into full-size busts.