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Watching the Breakers

Shoshone Falls on the Snake River

“Not since his first sight of the Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon had he been so stirred and thrilled.”¹ —Ruth Moran on her father Thomas Moran’s visit to Shoshone Falls, 1929

George Washington

The Arrival of American Troops at the Front

Riders in the Storm

Olla

The object is a buff colored polychrome olla (jar) with four decorated areas featuring two motifs which alternate symmetrically around the olla’s circumference. One of these designs is a geometric design of a central triangular shape with two thick lines to either side. The central triangle has the top divided down the middle with orange on the right and a spotted black area on the left. The rest of the triangle is decorated with black geometric designs on the buff background. The thick outer lines have matching designs of a geometric design on the upper half made up of dark black areas and spotted black areas on the buff background. These think lines are divided horizontally about halfway down with an orange rectangle. The bottom part of the lines are divided into three vertical sections with the inner one being colored orange and the outer ones being colored a spotted black. The other design decorating the vessel is a large spiral design that has been divided into sections. These sections are of black designs on the buff background that are separated by two orange sections, one orange being the same dark orange from the other design and the other orange being a lighter orange. A black line runs around the vessel dividing the undecorated bottom third from the decorations on the top of the vessel.

Sierra Nevada Morning

Crucified Land

Dempsey and Firpo

Codex Canadensis

Red Wool Cradleboard

The framework is composed of four wooden supports, two long connected by two short cross pieces. The tops of the long wooden pieces are pointed and decorated with German silver buttons and remnants of silk ribbons. The pieces are attached to each other by way of semi-tanned hide laces that pass through holes in the wood. The cover substrate is rigid around the head and across the foot. The central cover sections lack a rigid substrate and are fabric only. These rigid sections are formed of rawhide with a thick stiff steel wire along the top edges. The interior of the cover is lined with cotton fabric. The exterior of the foot is covered with semi-tanned hide decorated with twisted semi-tanned hide fringe. Additionally there are two pink glass pony beads at the foot strung on semi-tanned hide laces. The remainder of the exterior is covered in red wool baize with two strips of semi-tanned hide inset lengthwise that laces to close the cover around the baby. The wool has decorative beadwork, both glass and brass, sewn with cotton thread with small areas of lazy stitch. There are cotton strings of larger brown and blue tubular glass beads hanging on the exterior. The strings of brown also contain some faceted brown beads. These two swags of beads that flank the head portion of the cover include two white metal medals: on the PL side one religious with St. Joseph holding baby Jesus on one side and Mary with the crucified Christ in a pieta on the obverse and a second medal from a store in Commerce, Texas is on the PR side. The cover is attached to the wooden support with semi-tanned laces that pass through holes in the wood. There is an additional decorative fabric element that is separate from the cover and attached to the wooden uprights above the top of the cover. This Is red baize backed with cotton and attached with semi-tanned hide laces. It is decorated with brass faceted beads in the form of crosses, glass seed beads in various colors and German silver buttons.

Hunger

The Eagle

Mercado de Flores

Articles of Confederation 1777

This is a reference image scanned from an older transparency.

Letter from Creeks Residing in Cherokee Nation to Chief John Ross

Letter from Creeks residing in the Cherokee Nation to Chief John Ross asking help in resisting removal west. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on three pages. Folder 241.