Silver Horn was born c. 1861 to Agiati (Gathering Feathers) and Sa-Poodle (Traveling in the Rain) and was a member of the Kiowa Indian tribe of Oklahoma.

He developed and created very keen visuals of Kiowa culture, from traditional images, warfare, and coup counting to depictions of the sun dance, early Peyote religion, and daily life.

Silver Horn had witnessed traumatic changes as the Kiowa people went from a nomadic, buffalo-hunting culture to reservation life and forced assimilation into white society.

The depictions that Silver Horn would render were visionary images that were represented in abstract form on shields and events of the years past as a record in the pictorial calendar.

In 1995, a large traveling exhibit featuring works from the MNM and the private collection of his great-niece, Jeri Ah-be-hill, selected by the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, toured the United States.

[3] Ah-be-hill was a noted expert on Native American clothing and both of her daughters, Teri Greeves and Keri Ataumbi are known for their beadwork and jewelry designs.