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SHOSHONE SCHOOL Stylized characters This vital image of a buffalo hunt is made with pigment MAGNETIC FIELDS

Members of the Shoshone community wishing painted within dark outlines on a stretched elk hide. Stylized hunters, horses,
tolearnhow to paint a scene on a hide areand buffalo circle and charge the perimeters of a skin "field." Men at the

instructed to sit and watch. Skills are taught not center chant or dance to the beat of a drum. Each color is evenly
with words but through silent demonstratdioisntr.ibuted throughout the scene, creating harmonious balance

and helping our eye to dart around.

Horses It is interesting to note how the outstretched limbs

ofthesehorses echo European images of the runningBuhfofraselo Hunt

before the sequence-photographer Muybridge taught us t1o9TH CENTURY

understand their movement differently. SHOSHONE SCHOOL