Tuesday, March 18, 2008

ART: Painting by Hans Heiner Buhr / nez-perce / 60x40cm, Oil on Canvas, 2008

Upload on17 de março de 2008 by Hans Heiner Buhr
... and by the way..."The Nez Perce territory at the time of Lewis and Clark was approximately 17,000,000 acres (69,000 km²)." ... and this is the exact size of Georgia (the one in the Caucasus)- I mean this can not be just a coincidence, that I painted this today, isn't it ?? ;-)) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nez_Perce
and a bit OT, but interesting: "The Nez Perce tribe began a breeding program in 1995 based on crossbreeding the Appaloosa and a Central Asian breed called Akhal-Teke to produce the Nez Perce Horse. This is a program to re-establish the horse culture of the Nez Perce, a proud tradition of selective breeding and horsemanship that was destroyed in the 19th century. The breeding program was financed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Nez Perce tribe and a nonprofit group called the First Nations Development Institute, which promotes such businesses in Indian country. "Wow, how they got the idea to take the Akhal-Teke for the breeding, I mean that stunning horse is from Turkmenistan ...

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