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'Stuffy the Buffalo'

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"Stuffy the Buffalo" is a bison skin that is mounted on a thin frame of paper-maché and fine iron wire.

"Stuffy" has always been owned by the Buffalo Museum of Science.

 

Stuffy was later replaced by a bronze painted plaster bison that disappeared.

For more photos and information, see
Entrance Hall - The Buffalo Museum of Science

   

"Stuffy" in the Central Terminal in 2004 to celebrate the Terminal's 75th Anniversary

"Stuffy" in the Central Terminal in 2004 to celebrate the Terminal's 75th Anniversary

"Stuffy" went to the Central Station
And got himself a reputation
As a point of assignation
For service men's last osculation
 
Removed from there, his deportation
Has caused such widespread agitation
That now he's known throughout the nation
As a source of irritation
 
But when we've passed these days of ration
And can build an annexation
With suitable Museum location
He'll be the pride of all the nation
 
Our tale ends here with connotation
"Stuffy's" no name for this creation
Let's give him proper nomenclation
"The buffalo," his appellation!

Esther B. Wilhelm
Extension Secretary

April 1945

See also: Recast of the plaster-cast, bronze painted buffalo that was located at the Central Terminal.


Special thanks to Richard Szczepaniec and Buffalo Museum of Science Curator of Collections Kathryn H. Leacock for their assistance

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