Description: In this buffalo hunt scene, a mounted Plains Indian hunter named Running Elk is wearing an elk horn headdress and hunting with a bow. At full gallop on the prairie, the hunter is fitting an arrow to his bow while holding another in his mouth. Overhead, an eagle soars. In the foreground lays a buffalo skull near a prickly …
Prairie Edge Hunt- Sculpture
This 7′ x 5′ (one-sixth) life-size format was created by both Allen and Patty Eckman. It depicts a buffalo hunt with five hunters, thirteen buffalo, and four women and children. It is the forth in a series telling the story of the same Lakota Indian family living around the Black Hills of South Dakota.