White Buffalo - Snyder, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 32° 43.138 W 100° 55.050
14S E 320295 N 3621757
Located at the Snyder Chamber of Commerce (open 8-5 Mon-Fri)
Waymark Code: WM13C20
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/04/2020
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For years this statue stood on the courthouse square, just plain white to commemorate the white buffalo shot in Scurry County back in 1876.
Then someone noticed that the buffalo statue was of a male and the buffalo that had been shot in 1876 was a female. They replaced this fiberglass buffalo with a female bronze one.
This original historic statue was moved to the Chamber of Commerce and murals were painted on it.
TITLE: White Buffalo
ARTIST(S): Fibergalss Menagerie, fabricator
DATE: 1967 - 1986
MEDIUM: Fiberglass
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS TX001150
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Chamber of Commerce
2301 Avenue R
Snyder, TX 79549
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
The buffalo location is wrong - it has been moved.
It has also been painted with murals.
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