Buffalo Urns

These buffalo urns are cast aluminum pieces for those who belonged to the open plains and the wide sky. This collection honors people who worked the herds or simply endured the hardest seasons with steady persistence. We offer full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes in painted or hand-detailed enamel finishes.

Each urn can be engraved by us with a two-tone inscription of the name and dates.

This collection serves as a tribute to a life of quiet endurance.

For the nations of the plains, the buffalo is not merely a symbol, but a central presence that has been held and taught through generations. It is a creature of the open country. This collection is for the person who always felt a pull toward that openness, the one who felt most at home under a wide sky and least comfortable within the enclosure of a city. It honors those whose lives were lived on the plains, and for whom the landscape was a fundamental part of who they were.

There is a specific kind of strength found in the buffalo, one defined by endurance rather than sudden force. It is the animal that survives the winter, outlasting the hardest stretches by simply continuing on. Families often choose this design to honor someone who possessed that same steady persistence. It is for the person who did not make a performance of their struggles, but simply kept moving forward through the difficult seasons when others might have stopped.

Each piece in this collection is cast from aluminum and features the buffalo engraved into the surface. The finishes range from solid painted colors to hand-applied enamel accented by hand-detailed silver bands. To ensure the piece is secure, every urn is designed with a threaded screw-top lid and rests upon a felt base.

Because every family has different ways of remembering, we provide these designs in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes. This allows you to choose one piece or several, so that the memorial can be held close in whatever way feels most appropriate for your family's needs.

To make the piece a permanent part of their story, we can engrave a name and dates directly into the metal. This two-tone engraving is cut into the surface, creating a lasting tribute to the person who lived with the strength and openness of the plains.

The build of a bison carries enormous weight forward in the head, the hump, and the forequarters, yet it has been clocked running at 40 to 45 miles an hour. The head is also a tool. Through winter, they swing it to push snow off the grass and feed underneath, which is how an animal that size gets through a season with nothing growing.

For a family, the design on the urn is the country the person belonged to, and the way they kept going through the bad stretches.

Source: Wikipedia, American bison

If the person you are remembering possessed the grit to outlast a hard stretch and a need for a lot of sky, then this engraving will recall the essence of their character. Families often select this design because it mirrors the way they navigated life and the vast landscape where they felt most at home.

You will look at this piece and see the wide expanse of the plains, and the person who belonged to it.

Our guide to selecting the right size urn