Indian Hunter and His Dog

In 1926, a man named Thomas Cochran commissioned Paul Manship to create a sculpture to stand in Cochran Park on Summit Ave. in St. Paul, Minnesota. Cochran wanted a sculpture to honor his father. Manship created Indian Hunter and His Dog to stand in a pool surrounded by four bronze geese. See it at the park. The sculpture you see here is not a model for the larger version in Cochran Park. Manship often made different versions of the same sculpture, changing the sizes and details. This sculpture is like the one in Cochran Park, but smaller, and attached to a marble base. Manship meant it to be a complete sculpture all by itself. Like many of Manship's sculptures, Indian Hunter and His Dog has a shape that tells the whole story. If you lost all the details and just saw the outline or silhouette, you would still understand the sculpture. Try it and see! Roll your mouse over the picture above to change it to a silhouette. Paul Manship said many times that Indian Hunter and His Dog was his favorite sculpture. It reminded him of his childhood spent in St. Paul.