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"Calling the Buffalo"
19"H x 13"W x 11"D |
Bronze
Ed. 30 |
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| This piece depicts a Mandan Indian “Calling the Buffalo”. Most Native Americans had the belief that the buffalo came out of Mother Earth. Living on the plains of the mid-west and seeing millions of buffalo come thundering up out of the rolling hills lends credence to that belief. The Mandan men would don a buffalo headdress, hold the shield close to the body (representing the buffalo’s hump), stick a buffalo tail in the back flap of their loin cloth and mimic the movements and bellowing of this sacred animal. (Note: The shadow of this piece creates the shadow of a buffalo.) Lewis and Clark record in their journals that upon arriving at a Mandan Indian encampment, they witnessed a buffalo dance take place and the next day seeing buffalo on the horizon to be hunted. I had and inspiration, while sculpting this piece and created buffalo emerging out of the base (as if coming out of the ground). I also felt to mass up between the Indians arms and legs, as if he too is coming out the ground. |
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