Career
Silver Horn or Haungooah (1860–1940) was a Kiowa ledger artist from Oklahoma. His Kiowa name, Haungooah, refers to sunlight reflecting off a buffalo horn, making it gleam like a polished, white metal. He was a well-known artist from the early reservation period who was one of the most respected and talented Plains Indian artists in his time.
Silver Horn"s father was Agiati or "Gathering Feathers," who was a calendar keeper.
Silver Horn taught his great-nephew, Stephen Mopope how to paint on hides. Mopope went on to become one of the Kiowa Five.
Today many of his family members are artists. His great-granddaughter, Katherine Dickerson is a Kiowa beadworker, German silver worker, and moccasin maker.
Another grandson, Art "Haungooah" Cody, married into the Santa Clara pueblo in New Mexico and became an award winning potter.
Art"s son, Dean Haungooah continues in that tradition.
