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Jackson, WY: It is believed that decorating animal skulls began as early as 7200 BC in the Middle East, a tradition that was continued and innovated by North and Central American Indigenous communities for centuries, before becoming a major influence for American Modernist artists starting in the 1920s.

Inspired by Momento Mori – the celebration of life through the acknowledgement of our mortality – this trend has now entered in the contemporary art world, most famously with Damien Hirst’s 100 million dollar diamond-encrusted skull. Now, Lyndsay McCandless Rowan brings her delicate and …