Okay .. here's my favorite of this showing. It's a big, beautiful buffalo by Lynn Quam. We've long been fans of Lynn's work and have quite a collection of our own. So despite the fact that we both really LOVE this guy .. we're offering him here just hoping he sticks around long enough for us to change our mind.

He's made of a beautiful speciment of septarian nodule from Utah. Gorgeous color, beautiful crystals and a fine, fine buffalo. Lynn's inlaid the horns from fossil ivory and the eye in turquoise. He's a beauty, weighs over 1/2 a lb (!!!!) and is signed.

BUFFALO: The American Bison is usually associated with the Great Plains -- and the People who called it home. But bison once roamed as far south as northern Mexico and as far west as Arizona. The Zuni have a buffalo dance and hunted the bison when it was passing through Zuni lands. The buffalo is not a traditional animal when it comes to carved fetishes but all game animals are carved to ensure the Shiwi had enough to eat. So, in that context, the buffalo would be associated with blessings and plenty. It is likely, too, that the Shiwi carved bison fetishes for trade with tribes that lived to the north and who regularly hunted buffalo.