Administered by New Mexico State University College of Business Administration and Economics Department 3AD Las Cruces New Mexico 88003
Located New Mexico State University Business College Plaza Las Cruces New Mexico
Date:
Designed 1986. 1988. Dedicated Oct. 29, 1988
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Mexico survey, 1993.
Image on file.
The Trader/by/Duke Sundt/Santa Fe/Bronze/1988 signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A grouping of three full-length figures engaged in trade as occurred in New Mexico during the mid-1800s. On the proper left of the group squats a Native American man examining a tomahawk head held in his proper right hand while he holds an upright, steel-tipped spear in his left. His hair is braided with two feathers in it, and he wears fringed leggings and moccasins with a blanket draped over his shoulder. Standing slightly behind him and to his proper right is a Hispanic vaquero. He has a mustache, carries a pommel bag slung over his proper right shoulder, and wears a high-crowned, medium-brimmed hat, a short jacket over a loose shirt, pants covered by leggings, and moccasins with spurs. Kneeling slightly in front and to the proper right of the vaquero is a mustachioed Anglo trader wearing a short-crowned hat, buckskin shirt and pants, and high-topped boots. He holds a Hawkins rifle in his proper right hand. Between the figures are trade goods such as skinning knives, Green River knives, and English and French tomahawk heads, spread out on a beaver pelt.
Topic:
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