Tom Mauchahty-Ware (March 21, 1949 – November 3, 2015) was a
Kiowa
Kiowa () people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and eve ...
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Comanche
The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( com, Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in La ...
musician. He was known for his work playing the
Native American flute
The Native American flute is a flute that is held in front of the player, has open finger holes,
and has two chambers: one for collecting the breath of the player and a second chamber which creates sound.
The player breathes into one end of the ...
, and has been a successful American Indian dancer, and has sung in a popular blues band. He was also a skilled traditional artist: painting, sculpting, making flutes, bead working, and feather working. He was a descendant of the famous Kiowa flutist,
Belo Cozad, and made two commercial recordings, ''Flute Songs of the Kiowa and Comanche'' (1978) and ''The Traditional and Contemporary Indian Flute of Tom Mauchahty Ware'' (1983).
Films
*''Songkeepers'' (1999, 48 min.). Directed by Bob Hercules and Bob Jackson. Produced by Dan King. Lake Forest, Illinois: America's Flute Productions. Five distinguished traditional flute artists - Tom Mauchahty-Ware,
Sonny Nevaquaya
Sonny Nevaquaya was a Comanche flute player and maker from Oklahoma. He began his professional career in 1993 when he recorded an album entitled ''Spirit of the Flute''. His second album, ''Viva Kokopelli'' was released in 1996. He has also rel ...
,
R. Carlos Nakai
Raymond Carlos Nakai (born April 16, 1946) is a Native American flute, Native American flutist of Navajo people, Navajo and Ute people, Ute heritage. Nakai played brass instruments in high school and college, and auditioned for the Armed Forces ...
,
Hawk Littlejohn
Hawk Littlejohn (1941 – December 14, 2000) was an American musician and carver of Native American flutes.
He worked as an adjunct professor in Social and Administrative Medicine from 1982-1983 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
,
Kevin Locke Kevin Locke may refer to:
* Kevin Locke (musician) (born 1954 - passed October 1, 2022), Native American musician
*Kevin Locke (rugby league) (born 1989), New Zealand rugby league footballer
See also
* Kevin Lock (born 1953), English former footba ...
– talk about their instrument and their songs and the role of the flute and its music in their tribes.
[ And]
National Museum of the American Indian
References
Native American flautists
Native American painters
Native American bead artists
Native American sculptors
Kiowa people of Comanche descent
Kiowa people
1949 births
2015 deaths
Native American flute players
Place of birth missing
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