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Clay bison without a head on wood base.

Wood Full-Scale armature for Black Elk
Sections:
1 Front section with head and front legs of buffalo
2 Hump and shoulder section
3 lower body of Black Elk and the mid section of the buffalo
4 hind quarters and rear section
5 midsection of Black…

Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit
1980
Bronze

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.050




Black Elk (1863-1950) was a holy man of the Ogallala Sioux and a spiritual leader for all North American Indians. Black Elk Speaks,…

1/3 rd scale armature for Black Elk: Homage to the Great spirit. This is one of the last works Fredericks completed before he passed away.

This armature is crafted of wood lath and the head of the Black Elk figure is finished in clay. The buffalo…

Painted white plaster 1/3rd scale model of Black Elk. 1/3 scale plaster model painted a gloss white. Depicts Black Elk standing and looking upward toward the sky. He caries a peace pipe in his proper left hand. At his proper left side is a buffalo…

23 sections that make up the full-scale model for Black Elk

Plaster thumb for Full-Scale Black Elk. There is a metal pin in the bottom to attach it to the hand.

Partial section of the eye of the buffalo from the full-scale Black Elk. Clay is on a wood board and this may be the only section in clay that remains of the full-scale Black Elk.

Two part mold for Black Elk's Buffalo horns for full-scale model.

This is the left horn mold for full-scale Black Elk sculpture in 2 parts.