Beshekee

I've had trouble matching Alan's theme this week. I've struggled to find a picture of my own involving longhorn cattle so I've had to resort to searching the web. I hope you like with the result.

This is meant to be a restful exercise so I was pleased to find a picture called 'Repose.'

(Artist - Darley, Felix Octavius Carr - 1822-1888)

It is not just the longhorns that were at ease.

You have to have sharp eyes to see the longhorn in this picture from Earls Court in London:

 

These were the cattle in Buffalo Bill's Wild West at Earls Court in 1937 (I think).

The next picture that caught my eye was of  the Ojibwe chief, Beshekee.

(Marble bust by Francis Vincenti)

No horns but in Ojibwe his name is spelled Bizhiki; (Buffalo in English).

The world's largest buffalo may be found in Jamestown, North Dakota:

Sculptured after a male bison in full stride and anatomically correct.

I must confess I was not impressed by the size of his horns.

However I did like this animation of a buffalo at the gallop by Eadweard Muybridge:

For a really magnificent beast I located this by Indigo Valley

However the picture that really sickened me was one ex wikipedia. 

A photo from the 1870s of a pile of bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertiliser. 

(Author unknown, derative work PawelImm)

Would you have posed in front of the pile for a shot like this?

On a lighter note I do have one photo taken after a liquid night of a pair of horns from a Mexican bull.

The poser wishes to remain anonymous.

More  posts at: Sepia Saturday 64

Sidecars to Jaguars: Amy on Sepia Saturday 51

The origins of Jaguar go back to the seaside town of Blackpool. In 1922 Bill Lyons, a motorcycle enthusiast, and William Walmsley formed the Swallow Sidecar Company – Walmsley had previously been building sidecars and attaching them to reconditioned motorbikes.

In 1926/27 The Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company diversified taking existing cars and re-bodying them with more fashionable coachwork.

SS cars came in the 1930s when a chassis to Swallow’s design was fitted with engines from the Standard Motor Company. Later the SS name was altered to SS Jaguar. As a consequence of WWII the term SS had unwanted Nazi connotations and in April 1945 SS Cars became Jaguar Cars.

What’s this to do with Amy?

In September 1948 Jaguar announced the Jaguar Mark V, its first post war model.

 This week’s photo shows Amy with her husband Bob (the couple on the left), her sister Edna and Edna’s husband, Charles. They were on a trip to London in 1948 to see the Motor Show at Earls Court, the first after the war.

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