"BUFFALO MEDICINE MAN" 12.5x3 Clay Sculpture

• Prairie clay hand formed and molded into a "buffalo person" with a raku style glaze adhered then torched in a wood fire
• Sculpture measures 12.5" height x 3" width
• Sinew cord belt with beads (synthetic and natural horn) and attached natural sagebrush wrapped in natural hair on hide deerskin
• Sits on black leather base that is attached to the sculpture
• Artist signed

I'm still sculpting predominantly older American Indians as well as horses and bison. I have clay with me no matter where I am. Sometimes I sit along a river and sculpt and sometimes I'm in the corner of a basement and sometimes at the table in my Badlands studio Because of the slow down last year dud to Covid I did an Historical Renovation Project on a Museum site of one of the oldest Ranches in Nebraska I’m presently adding on a structure to the adobe using 140 year old beams from a Wyoming mine brought to the Badlands years ago. 

~Robert Stroup

Sagebrush

Sagebrush was used by Native Americans for ritual incense, shelter, cordage and baskertry. The fruits were use fresh, dried and pounded into a meal.  They are known to smudge their homes with sagebrush to chase away evil spirit.

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