Buffalo Woman - Ottawa, Ks. - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

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This sculpture of an Native Woman, sculpted of bronze, and is located on the western grounds of the Franklin County Courthouse - 315 S. Main. The Sculpture is in excellent shape. The base is concrete with a granite slab top. The sculpture and base rests within a series of plantings.

Description from SIRIS:
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"An Indian mother wearing a fringed dress carries a baby on her back in a hooded carrier. From her belt hang a pouch and a sheathed knife. She carries a larger pouch in her proper left hand. She stands atop a base set in the middle of an octagonal planter. The planter has two inscribed plaques mounted on it and various shrubs growing in it."

Inscription on Planter:

"Charlie Norton (Plaque on planter:) "BUFFALO WOMAN/By Charlie Norton/Dedicated Oct. 7, 1989, by the people/of Ottawa to celebrate the town's/125th anniversary." (Another plaque mounted on planter records the donors of the planter) signed"

TITLE: Buffalo Woman ARTIST(S): Norton, Charlie, 1942- , sculptor. Art Castings of Colorado, founder. DATE: 1989. Dedicated Oct. 7, 1989 MEDIUM: Figure: bronze; Base: granite and concrete; Planter: concrete CONTROL NUMBER: IAS KS000166 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Western grounds of the Franklin County Courthouse - 315 S. Main in Ottawa, Ks. DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: Description in SIRIS is correct. Sculpture is in excellent shape.

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