Description
This piece represents a portrait of Native American life showing a Lakota buffalo hunt and jump on the edge of the prairie in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota.
As five mounted warriors bring down thirteen buffalo, five unsuspecting women and children are caught in the melée. A mother is desperately trying to protect her baby in a cradleboard from the falling rocks caused by a charging buffalo bull upheaving a mounted warrior on the rocks above them. The grandmother and young granddaughter beckon urgently to a very terrified young sister to join them in the protected crevice in order to avoid the stampeding buffalo.
Details also include 2 startled Magpies, one on a nest with two eggs in a large ponderosa pine tree, several petroglyphs carved in the walls of the cliffs, 2 buffalo skulls and much more! This exquisite action-packed piece contains the infinite amount of detail that only the Eckmans can accomplish in the fine art medium of cast paper sculpture.
~Allen & Patty Eckman