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Buffalo Painted on Bison Bone
Buffalo Painted on Bison Bone

Buffalo Painted on Bison Bone

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1911
MediumOil on Bone
Dimensions17 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 3 in. (45.1 × 24.8 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1990.004
ClassificationsPainting
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    Categorywildlife
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    DescriptionOne small bison with a light brown body painted on a bison bone (scapula). The bison is painted on the wide section of the bone to the left and faces left.Curatorial Remarks
    Part of a pair, painted with Philip R. Goodwin, see M1990.006, presumably when Goodwin accompanied Rungius to Banff in 1911.