Medicine Buffalo of the Sioux
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Genre
- Paintings
Styles
Tags
menWesternMedicine CeremonyRites and ceremoniesFigure group
About
George Catlin described this magical image as “the figure of a buffalo cut out of the turf on the prairie, and visited by the Indians going on a buffalo-hunt.” (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)