We walked across the scanty dump of a sheepherder’s camp: rusty tin cans,  bits of glass, a watering trough tinkered out of something like an old water heater.  The herder had brought his family, for in the scatter was a plastic Indian from a “cowboys and Indians” set.  Quick research says the first plastic soldiers were made in 1938, but I could find no info on a Western set to which this guy might belong.

Here he lies in a handsome concretion to show him off. The sun has eaten him and given him a cracked patina, but you can still tell he is getting an arrow from his quiver.