#museum of the american indian

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Foolish Bear, 84, left, and Drags Wolf, 75, came to New York on January 13, 1938 to recover from the Heye Foundation (Museum of the American Indian) two sacred skulls of thunderbird deities that they believed would end recent droughts in their native North Dakota. The men were members of the Water Buster or Midi Badi clan of the Hidatsa (Gros Ventre) tribe. This was the first known successful repatriation of Indian objects. They visited President Roosevelt on the way to New York.

Article about this repatriation

Photo: Associated Press via WHNT

[direwolfrules]

Been spending too much time in this one Archaeology Professor’s courses. I went with my college’s history club to the Museum of the American Indian and I got super excited when I saw Clovis points. In my defense, they’re Clovis points.

Look at them! They’re stunning!

Anyway, I’m so glad my friends in the club are willing to listen to me rant because I went on a whole five minute spiel about the Clovis people and disproven claims of pre-Clovis populations.

[pointandshooter]

The National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

[jasongr-ace]

It’s so frustrating how much of Piper fanart looks like it could be here

[lionofchaeronea]

The Song of the Talking Wire, Henry F. Farny, 1904

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TwoForTuesday:

Ceramic stirrup-spout bottles in the form of a #duck and a #feline (ID’d here as a puma)

c. 1100-1400 CE

Chimú culture, North coast of Peru

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian display

This type of grey-black ceramic was a signature Chimú style.

[garadinervi]

Copy of the Lone Dog Winter Count, (cowhide, painted) [National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]

[christophermtaylor]

National Museum of the Indian American

[disarmluna]

[istandonsnowpiles]

Have a Seat

[rimouskis]

on the subject of museums though: I'm a FIRM believer that the smithsonians are genuinely some the greatest cultural heritage americans possess and I believe SO fervently in them being free to the public and accessible to all because they ARE our nation's history and tell (and ideally deconstruct) our national myths and help contextualize the natural world around us and show us the heights of human ingenuity and art. also my favorite of all of them is the national museum of the american indian and I personally think if you can only go to one smithsonian museum it should be that one

[internationalemeteorologie]

Grace Hudson 

Boy with Fox. 1922

[theaskew]

Paula Nicho Cúmez (Mayan-Guatemalan b. 1955), Mi Segunda Piel (My Second Skin), 2004. Oil on canvas, 82.5 x 58.8 cm. (Source: National Museum of the American Indian)

[pointandshooter]

National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

[petsincollections]

Salish family group poses before tepee, Montana

Man in wide-brimmed hat stands with two women, two young women, small girl, toddler and infant in beaded cradleboard in front of tepee. The women and girls have blankets around shoulders over their blouses and skirts; toddler in a full-length dress is attempting to pet a dog.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Images

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

[lionofchaeronea]

The Harvest Dance, Joseph Henry Sharp, 1893-94