To the Autry Museum today, to look at some paintings - but what really caught my eye were these buffalo chairs. Oh! I thought. I was reading about some chair just like this a month or so ago - made especially for the Scotsman, William Drummond Stewart, of Murthly Castle, about whom I was speaking at NAVSA last month, briefly - mentioning that he imported a herd of buffalo into his Scottish estate, and noting that Millais rented his lodge at Murthly Castle just after Stewart's death - a great base, he found, for shooting and fishing. And then I read the label - *and these are the Murthly Chairs!*
And then - this will surely fit into the same book chapter - there was Wendy Red Crow'ss wonderful installation, Token, Gold, and Glory - a commentary on hunting and also on the removal of indigenous people from their lands, especially those who were removed during the gold rush - a work about resource extraction; commodification; wealth over life; superficiality and artificiality (hence the Astroturf).
Oh, and here's an actual buffalo, too.
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