Photo 2, page 133, The Tavernier Trio, 1964. More information Find this Pin and more on Cool & Inspiring Photos by DeAnna Anton . Wearing a suit and top hat, a large buffalo skull propped against his leg, he resembles an exclamation point standing at the top of a very long sentence about death and destruction. B: 731: 5 yrs: WTF: 181: Hunters in the 1800s standing on a pile of bison skulls. In some places, buffalo tongues became a delicacy in fine restaurants. Soon, the demand for buffalo had increased to such a degree that year-round work was available for buffalo hunters. Handwritten on back: "C.D. There are artifacts along the top of the skull pile that need to be cleaned up. Handwritten on back: "C.D. The most inter- esting thing about the photo is the man standing at the top. Man stands on top of enormous pile of buffalo skulls; another man stands in front of pile with his foot resting on a buffalo skull; rustic cage is at foot of pile. 1892 Glueworks, office foot of 1st St., works at Rougeville, Mich."" "Man stands on top of enormous pile of buffalo skulls; another man stands in front of pile with his foot resting on a buffalo skull; rustic cage is at foot of pile. 193 Illustration Credits Photo 1, page 129, Man standing on a pile of buffalo skulls, circa 1892. A man standing atop a pile of American bison skulls which are waiting to be ground for fertilizer, mid 1870s [5,689 × 4,448] White man is an idiot. Man standing on a pile of American Bison heads back in the 1870's. Kaldari 23:43, 26 May 2011 (UTC) Comment, There’s a halo around the pyre and man standing atop: it looks like image compression artefacting (although I’m certainly no expert). A photo, which purportedly shows a man standing on top of a large pile of bison skulls, is real. B: 29: 2 yrs: pics: 5: Massive pile of Bison skulls on the Great Plains, 1870's [3413x2669] B: 38: 4 yrs: HistoryPorn: 9: Pile of over hunted American bison skulls in 1870. Photo Shows Man Standing on Large Pile of Bison Skulls? From kings of the American plains to piles of sun-bleached bones: How mass slaughter by hunters nearly wiped out the buffalo. I did a rough calculation on the pile of skulls. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. I am not a mathematician, just an average joe, If someone can do a better estimate I would be thrilled to find out. 20 feet high 40 feet wide ( average 30 feet ) pretended it was half a sphere and figured each skull took up one cubic foot. 1892 Glueworks, office foot of 1st St., works at Rougeville, Mich." This, all occurring in a time that the economy was depressed after the Civil War, led many a tough man to earn his living as a buffalo hunter. A pile of buffalo skulls; the US government tries to kill off the Indian's food supply. here: 18: 52: 8 months: reebokpumps: Bison Skull Pile Circa 1870 /r/WTF: 54: 124: 9 months: 23mac: A pile of bison skulls in the 1870s. Big pile of bison skulls! I came up with 424,000 skulls. This is despicable: here: 111: 155 Buffalo population fell from 50 million to just 2,000 following hunting Huge Pile of Bison Skulls/Bones-1870 Discussion in 'Outdoor News' started by Liver and Onions, Aug 12, 2018.