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Native American Motifs

Manufacturer:: Gorham Manufacturing Company, founded 1818

Medium:: Silver

Type:: containers; Decorative Arts; Matchsafe

Object Name:: Matchsafe

Place made:: Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Date:: ca. 1910

Credit Line:: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener

Accession Number:: 1978-146-1395

Catalogue Status:: Research in Progress

Description:: Oblong, curved sides, top and bottom, featuring raised decoration of Native American Indian motifs, central reserve displays feathered headdress, necklace strung with animal's teeth, arrowhead at bottom center, flanked by 2 tomahawks, lid features smaller necklace and other motifs, monogram inscribed on central reserve; reverse features Native American's face in central reserve with identical surrounding decoration. Lid hinged on side. Striker in recessed groove on bottom.

See more items in:: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Collection; Product Design and Decorative Arts Department

Data Source:: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Record ID:: chndm_1978-146-1395

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Native American Man

Manufacturer:: Unger Brothers

Medium:: Silver

Type:: containers; Decorative Arts; Matchsafe

Object Name:: Matchsafe

Place manufactured:: Newark, New Jersey, United States

Date:: ca. 1904

Credit Line:: Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener

Accession Number:: 1978-146-282

Catalogue Status:: Research in Progress

Description:: Oblong, with rounded corners, featuring depiction of Native American man in feathered head dress. Reverse features no decoration except for an elaborate incised monogram (RR ?). Lid (upper section of box) hinged on side. Striker recessed into bottom.

See more items in:: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Collection; Product Design and Decorative Arts Department

Data Source:: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Record ID:: chndm_1978-146-282

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ECHO Native American Storytellers

Creator:: Smithsonian Institution

Type:: YouTube Videos

Uploaded:: 2011-02-25T19:53:32.000Z

Metadata Updated:: 2013-05-05T21:57:00.000Z

YouTube Category:: Education

Views:: 2943

Video Title:: ECHO Native American Storytellers

Description:: Each year, Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO) brings its Performing Arts Festival to communities across America. Native and non-Native artists from the ECHO partner regions of Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Massachusetts come together to create a performance piece that shares their cultural traditions. This year's performance Celebrate -- Song, Dance & Story! takes us on a journey down life's paths, from childhood to love and marriage and beyond. Through these songs, dances, and stories of challenges and triumphs, we learn the cultural values of these communities -- whether about respect for ancestral ways or the dangers of jealousy and vanity. Visit www.echospace.org closer to the time of the event for a calendar of appearances, pre-and post-visit curriculum materials and performance video. Performed on February 25, 2011 at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Video Duration:: 4890 seconds

See more by:: SmithsonianVideos

YouTube Channel:: SmithsonianVideos

Data Source:: Smithsonian Institution

Record ID:: yt_hWJ3g-igHTw

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Catlin Paintings & Native American Exhibits

Author:: Unknown

Subject:: Catlin, George 1796-1872; Arts and Industries Building; United States National Museum; Catlin Indian Gallery

Physical description:: Color: Sepia; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

Type:: Photographic print; Exhibit

Topic:: Anthropology; Art objects; Dioramas; Indians of North America; Art, American; Exhibitions; Ethnology

Standard number:: 78-3843 or 11772-E

Restrictions:: For permission to reproduce or publish, contact osiaref@si.edu or call 202-633-5870. To order reproductions, call 202-633-1933 or contact photos@si.edu

Category:: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes:: Please note that the digital file for this image is reversed

Summary:: Native American dioramas exhibited in glass cases with the Catlin Gallery of Indian Paintings along the walls in the background, United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1901

Data Source:: Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Record ID:: siris_sic_9709

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Engraving of Native American Rattles

Author:: Unknown

Subject:: United States National Museum; Arts and Industries Building; National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Musical History

Physical description:: Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print

Type:: Photographic print; Object

Date:: 1883

Topic:: Exhibitions; Visitor's Guide; Comparative Technology Section (USNM); Musical instruments; Rattles; Indians of North America

Standard number:: 95-20318

Restrictions:: For permission to reproduce or publish, contact osiaref@si.edu or call 202-633-5870. To order reproductions, call 202-633-1933 or contact photos@si.edu

Category:: Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes:: From "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington." New York: Brentano Brothers, 1886. Page 96

Summary:: Illustration (Fig. 127) in "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington" is of rattles used by Native Americans in their dances. This exhibit was in the section on musical instruments in the United States National Museum

Data Source:: Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Record ID:: siris_sic_10430

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ECHO Native American Storytellers - Day 2

Creator:: Smithsonian Institution

Type:: YouTube Videos

Uploaded:: 2011-02-28T22:32:55.000Z

Metadata Updated:: 2012-12-10T13:03:16.000Z

YouTube Category:: Education

Views:: 1783

Video Title:: ECHO Native American Storytellers - Day 2

Description:: Each year, Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO) brings its Performing Arts Festival to communities across America. Native and non-Native artists from the ECHO partner regions of Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Massachusetts come together to create a performance piece that shares their cultural traditions. This year's performance Celebrate -- Song, Dance & Story! takes us on a journey down life's paths, from childhood to love and marriage and beyond. Through these songs, dances, and stories of challenges and triumphs, we learn the cultural values of these communities -- whether about respect for ancestral ways or the dangers of jealousy and vanity. Visit www.echospace.org closer to the time of the event for a calendar of appearances, pre-and post-visit curriculum materials and performance video. Performed on February 25, 2011 at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Video Duration:: 4216 seconds

See more by:: SmithsonianVideos

YouTube Channel:: SmithsonianVideos

Data Source:: Smithsonian Institution

Record ID:: yt_wz8qAo8N4SY

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Native American Heritage Month Family Day 2011 Video Interviews

Creator:: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Type:: Interviews; YouTube Videos

Uploaded:: 2011-12-13T19:09:11.000Z

Metadata Updated:: 2012-11-03T03:04:43.000Z

Topic:: Art, modern

YouTube Category:: Film

Views:: 349

Video Title:: Native American Heritage Month Family Day 2011 Video Interviews

Description:: During the 2011 Native American Heritage Month Family Day Event, held at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, a team of ARTLAB+ teens filmed video interviews, asking festival goers about their connection to nature. To learn more about ARTLAB+ Production Teams and other programs, visit artlabplus.si.edu.

Video Duration:: 273 seconds

See more by:: hirshhornARTLAB

YouTube Channel:: hirshhornARTLAB

Data Source:: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID:: yt_-WQu5Qb-6Xg

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Native American Portraits by Gertrude Kasebier

Maker:: Kasebier, Gertrude

Physical Description:: platinum print (overall material); paper (overall material)

Measurements:: overall: 20.1 cm x 15 cm; 7 15/16 in x 5 7/8 in

Object Name:: photograph

Date made:: ca 1898

Subject:: Photography; Gertrude Kasebier

Depicted:: Delaney, Michelle. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Kasebier

ID Number:: PG*69.236.006

Accession number:: 287543

Description:: Waiting to be photographed by New York City photographer Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934), Native Americans traveling with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show sketch at a table in her studio on 5th Avenue, about 1898. William "Buffalo Bill" Cody selected nine Indians from his touring show to have their portraits made after receiving a letter of inquiry from Kasebier. The photographer maintained long friendships with a few of the Wild West Show's Indians, corresponding with them from 1898 to about 1912. Examples of these letters were published in Everybody's Magazine in January 1901.