Old Country Buffet - The Feast by western artist Howard Terpning

Old Country Buffet - The Feast by Howard Terpning.

 

"....Two white trappers are welcomed warmly to a banquet of boiled buffalo meat and pemican cakes of dried meat and berries. The visitors are fortunate to have encountered a friendly band of Shoshone....Every meal was a feast with spiritual overtones to the People, whatever the fare and no matter how much of how little they had. It was their custom to share and to be thankful for what the spirits had provided. The feast involved much more than just the eating of a meal. It was an occasion to uplift the spirit of the People and strengthen the bonds of brotherhood." (Spirit of the Plains People - Don Hedgpeth).

 

Print released 1994.