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Buffalo Hunt
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About this work
This romantic and retrospective scene was modeled on rodeo champion Jackson Sundown (1863--1923). Sundown had served with his uncle Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (sometimes called Chief Joseph), a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce, defending their land and people against attacks by the U.S. Calvary. Sundown once escaped after being wounded in battle by adroitly riding off the side of his horse and eluding his pursuers. He made his living breeding and raising horses and riding rodeo, eventually working from a ranch in Idaho where he hosted Alexander Proctor as the sculptor worked on this composition.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBuffalo Hunt. modeled 1914-1916, copyrighted 1917. A. Phimister Proctor, born Bozanquit, Ontario, Canada 1860-died Palo Alto, CA 1950. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jean and William M. (Oz) Osborne in memory of Eleanor Tufts and in honor of Alessandra Comini. CC0.
