Title: Dan Mieduch (1947- ), The Buffalo Shaman
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 26 x 39
Frame dimensions: 34.75 x 47.75 x 3.25

The Shaman, in primeval societies, is a person who, in his late childhood or early adulthood, has had an overwhelming psychological experience that turns them totally inward. The sprit world has opened and they have fallen into it. Whatever the inward journeys may have been to which those Shamans descended in their trances, the visions they had there guided and instructed the people. Through conversations with the buffalo master and spirits of ancestors, they were able to foresee the future fates, or “hoops” of their nation and guide them in the great drama of the dance of life.

signed lower left: © DAN MIEDUCH 2015