After a buffalo hunt, Indian women would locate the hunters to skin and butcher the meat. This sculpture shows an empty travois and the woman is on a rise in the prairie trying to locate the kill. Karen Hepp, Jay’s neighbor, was a young girl at the time he wanted to make this sculpture so she became his model.
Travois
$3,500.00
A horse and travois lightened the heavy work of moving for the native people.
Description
After a buffalo hunt, Indian women would locate the hunters to skin and butcher the meat. This sculpture shows an empty travois and the woman is on a rise in the prairie trying to locate the kill. Karen Hepp, Jay’s neighbor, was a young girl at the time he wanted to make this sculpture so she became his model.
Additional information
50 Castings
1990