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The Horse Doctor And His Medicine Bag At Rendezvous By Howard Terpning

The Horse Doctor and His Medicine Bag at Rendezvous by Howard Terpning

“Once the Plains people had become accustomed to owning horses,” says Howard Terpning, “a special class of medicine men emerged: those with unusual skill in healing the ailments of horses. Some remedies involved the use of various herbs and others would seem to us today like magic tricks, with no sound medical reasoning, and yet they often worked wonders. The Nez Perce were among the best horse breeders, so it would follow that they produced excellent horse doctors.

“This scene at Rendezvous shows a group of Nez Perce and a white trader observing the initial meeting between a horse doctor and his patient. At some point in the healing process, the horse doctor will open his medicine bag and bring out the magical items and herbs that will, with luck, cure the animal.

“This painting enabled me to show a large group of people, surrounded by the clutter and confusion of the annual rendezvous.”

The Horse Doctor and his Medicine Bag at Rendezvous by Howard Terpning is available for sale as a signed and numbered limited edition giclee canvas with a very large 48 x 66 image size priced for sale at $4,500 unframed.

Order yours today. All artwork is professionally boxed and insured and guaranteed to arrive in mint condition. All artwork has been hand signed by the artist. was published in November 2008. Western artist Howard Terpning painted a very large painting of a lot of white men, both Nez Perce American Indians and a white trader in high quality first people fine art prints for sale.

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