Muncie

Passing of the Buffalo, Cyrus E. Dallin, 1929
The Mound Builders, who were Native Americans, are the earliest known inhabitants of Indiana and lived there over 2,000 years ago. This sculpture represents a Native American of a later tribe who lived in what is now Indiana. He is wearing traditional attire including an incredible headdress that reaches all the way to the ground! This sculpture is in an urban environment. How do you imagine this landscape before the city was built? Were there wild animals? Were there skyscrapers? Draw this sculpture with the landscape you imagined.

The artist, Cyrus Dallin, grew up in Springville, Utah, where he befriended people from the Ute Tribe. He learned much about their culture and came to respect it greatly. He devoted his life and art to making heroic monuments which proclaimed the Native American point of view. His sculptures can be found throughout the country in cities like Salt Lake City, Kansas City, and Boston.