Name/Title
Buffalo Trap PaintingEntry/Object ID
2008.1012.4.3Description
A large, 56 1/2" high x 70" wide, oil painting entitled "Buffalo Trap Painting" by the donors. The painting is of a buffalo kill site and shows Native American hunters dressed in animal skins on their heads and shoulders and wearing loin cloths. Side left foreground shows hunters on large boulders with spears raised, and another hunter on a higher boulder above them with a bow and arrow drawn aiming at a group of buffalo being run up the hill passed the hunters at the lower level by Indian women dressed in short animal skin dresses secured at the left shoulder with the right shoulder bare. They are waving animal hides at the buffalo in order to herd them up the hill and past the hunters. A very wide valley expanse is seen in mid center background with barren hills in the far distant horizon. A tree line is seen center right rising from a granite? ridge outcropping. Painting is done in autumn toned oils and shows autumn tree leaves in golden hues and dormant colored grasses in foreground. Distressed wooden, walnut toned, 6 1/2" width, three dimensional moulding surrounds painting and matted with linen like mat interior with gold border on inside edge of mat.Collection
Permanent Collection