![]() ![]() ![]() inventory #4154 Very Good in Dustjacket With Some Internal Foxing. His vibrant paintings of Straight-up-People, herds and skies, widens the vision for which he is famous. The legend upon which Paul Goble has based his story - a legend telling of the kinship between man and animal, and of the transfiguring power of love - comes from the tribes of the Great Plains. The saddened hunter follows them into the heart of the Buffalo Nation and proves his love by joining them. In stealth, Buffalo Woman flees with Calf Boy and returns to the herd, and to animal form. ![]() This is the only collection in the museums holdings that represent an artists entire body of work. They call her a woman without a family.' They are wrong, Buffalo Woman's family roams in great herds across the plains, giving of themselves so the people may eat. Paul Goble was an award winning author and illustrator of childrens books depicting Native American legends and traditions. They marry and have a son, Calf Boy, but the hunter's people are cruel to mother and child. She is a gift from the Buffalo Nation because the hunter is kind-hearted and always gives thanks to the Buffalo. A young hunter sees her and tightens an arrow against his bowstring, but when he looks up again he sees a beautiful woman bending to the water. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A buffalo cow nears a stream to drink. Very Good in Dustjacket With Some Internal Foxing. ![]()
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