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Original Oil Painting entitled “Rabbit Hunt—Taos” by Helen Blumenschein - 25777
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Thu, Sep 22nd 2016, 5:13pm
The Native American attitude toward killing animals unnecessarily is well established and historically recorded. They kill animals when needed for food or other necessities, but not for sport.
There was a time when American bison roamed in limited numbers in the area north and east of Taos Pueblo and the Taos men would organize buffalo hunts on an annual basis. As the bison population dwindled with trappers killing them for their hides for trade, the bison hunts slowed and came to an end. The last recorded bison hunt by men of Taos Pueblo was in 1884 in the Texas Panhandle. Grant 1925