Watercolor/Poster
Two Buffalo dancers with a women in the middle of them who represents the mother of all game. The buffalo dance is a combination of animal and hunting ceremonial. Pueblo people occasionally ventured into the great plains to hunt buffalo. The men wear buffalo head dresses with eagle feathers, white skirts with a red sash. The sash has bells on it. They hold bows and arrows. The women wears a white dress that covers one shoulder. She wears and holds many feathers. Two small pine trees with feathers attached are in between the dancers.
- Object: Watercolor/Poster
- Artist: Jose Ray Toledo
- Circa: Early 1900s
- Dimensions: 16 x 25-1/2
- Culture Area: Southwest
- Cultural Group: -
- Cultural Context: To be successful in hunting, a man had to have more than just practice skills he needed the cooperation of the animals he hunted and it was toward this that most animal and hunting rituals were directed. This was not a matter of a superior being controlling a lower life form, but one which two equals sought an understanding of their respective roles in life.
- Donor: Freda Viv Bernhart
- Catalog #: 99.003