Beaded Buffalo

I once spent a September week in Badlands National Park, S.D., pulling up fence posts in the Sage Creek Wilderness Area so the land would be free of human traces. It was backbreaking but joyously rewarding work because I was healing once-wild land.

At one day’s end, as I stared out over the miles and realized I’d helped a place go back in time, the sun starting sliding down behind the flat-top buttes that stood between me and the horizon. Thus, this design.

The elk-skin bag measures 9″ x 13.5″, has a fully beaded strap, and one-inch side and bottom spacers so the bag closes like a briefcase (instead of an envelope).

Price: $1,100