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In 1999, Paris is suddenly aware of the Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow. The Pont des Arts, which is a narrow bridge closed to traffic, is suddenly adorned with a battle scene in which 23 characters and 8 horses are bigger than life. The subject is also political because it represents the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876), this extraordinary victory over Custer for which Crazy Horse became a symbo…