ALVIN K. MARSHALL Signed Vintage Natural Stone Navajo Figurative Sculpture, depicts a Navajo person on one side and an eagle on the other, weighted sculpture, measures approx 15 3/4 x 16 in. As a young boy Alvin Marshall was taken from his home on a Navajo reservation and placed in boarding schools where he was not permitted to speak the Navajo language or practice its traditions. By the age of ten he had lost both of his parents and it was his grandparents that taught him his Navajo culture which he hopes to pass on in his figurative sculpture. Marshall's images that emerge from alabaster stone tell stories of his Navajo culture. Working through a process relying on his ability to visualize "memory photos", he says: " I often feel like an instrument through which my art flows". Marshall believes there is a need for spiritual connection among different peoples. His special gift is the ability to produce art that embodies an authentic spirituality that can unite. He worries that "we've lost the