DepartmentUnited States & Canada

Bison

NameSculpture

Artist Linvel Barker

Date1992

Place madeIsonville, KENTUCKY, United States, North America

MediumBasswood

Dimensions12 × 3 1/2 × 15 in. (30.4801 × 8.89 × 38.1001 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Burt-Sellen Revocable Trust, A.2020.47.7

Object numberA.2020.47.7

DescriptionCarved bison with four slender legs, a long, slender tail, narrow haunches, and a light hump over its shoulders. Its oval head has two carved nostrils, pointed horns, and ears which extended from perpendicularly from either side, below the horns.