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Westminster West -- Hayward Garden

Gardener:
O'Donnell, Helen  Search this
Owner:
Hayward, Mary  Search this
Hayward, Gordon  Search this
Provenance:
Garden Club of Dublin (New Hampshire)  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Hayward Garden (Westminster West, Vermont)
United States of America -- Vermont -- Windham -- Westminster West
Scope and Contents:
Hayward Garden includes 63 digital images and a folder that includes worksheets, photocopies of articles and additional images including a pamphlet about a musical program created for and perfomed in the garden in 2014 as a the Yellow Barn summer program.
General:
The owners describe their one and one-half acre ornamental garden as a new garden in an old place, with its 200 year-old colonial farmhouse and attached barn, low stone walls, and old farm building foundations that have been repurposed as distinctive garden rooms within surrounding meadows and woods. They purchased the property in 1983 and spent about one year clearing the land of scrap metal and other debris, brambles and weed trees, a rotting barn, dead trees, and an old Nash Metropolitan automobile. The garden style is English, with a rectilinear format from south to north softened by lush growth in season and more evident in the long Vermont winter. The design began by drawing a straight line from the front door of the house to a 75-year-old apple tree. There is a crab apple orchard along that main axis that can be seen from the house. Brick and pea stone gravel walks, 90-foot long mixed borders, and an herb garden laid out in formal parterres are either parallel or perpendicular to the central axis of the garden. The 14 garden rooms are delineated by clipped hedges of varying heights, many of yew but also other plant materials for variation. There are four places to sit within the garden: a gazebo at the far end reached through a tunnel of pleached copper beech, an outdoor dining room on pavers under tall trees, a bench slightly above and overlooking their spring garden, and another bench next to a shed near the herb garden.
Creating a garden in harmony with the rural location was important to the owners, who subsequently purchased 19 adjacent acres and preserved the meadows and woods with the Vermont Land Trust. To instill harmony in the diverse garden rooms the owners adhere to three themes: hedges for structure, black locust posts and terra cotta containers for materials, and burgundy and other reds for the color that recurs throughout the garden rooms. Since the entire garden is unified it is possible to add variations without muddling the design. Honoring the long gone dairy farms they have turned the foundations of a milking parlor into a garden room that has low, drought tolerant plants growing among the stone flooring and three rusted milk cans. The cracked cement foundation of a former silo was turned into a pond with a fountain built into a stone wellhead and a statue of Buddha on the shore.
Gordon Hayward has written many articles for Horticulture, Taunton's Fine Gardening, and regional magazines using his own garden to teach design aesthetics and their practical application. Topics include the effective placement of planted and unplanted containers and other garden ornaments, how to build a small fountain, the importance of proportions to design, how to set vertical posts, and tips on outdoor seating and dining rooms. Good design is illustrated by reshaping lawns to complement planted borders or trees, through consistent choices of decorative materials, through applying the principles of theme and variation when choosing what to put in the garden, and through planning for the winter garden with berries and crab apples for birds and good "bones" that become evident in winter.
Persons associated with the garden include: Gordon Hayward (owner, garden designer, and gardener, 1983- ), Mary Hayward (owner, garden designer, and gardener, 1983- ), Ephraim and Lydia Johnson Ranney, and their descendants in the Buxton and Reed families (former owners, circa 1790-1983); Helen O'Donnell (gardener, 2008-2015).
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Vermont -- Westminster West  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File VT019
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The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Vermont
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6348782db-b9b4-4f9c-bd8d-72b7affb6963
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref11360

Warsaw -- Sabine Hall

Former owner:
Carter, Robert Wormley, ca. 1735-1797  Search this
Wellford, Armistead Nelson  Search this
Wellford, Dabney S. Rev  Search this
Wellford, Hill B.  Search this
Carter, Landon, 1710-1778  Search this
Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806  Search this
Carter, Winifred, ca.1740  Search this
Wellford, Robert, 1775-1844  Search this
Wellford, Ida  Search this
Wellford, William  Search this
Wellford, Katherine Davis  Search this
Carter, Katherine  Search this
Carter, Elizabeth Merrie  Search this
Carter, Landon, II  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Sabine Hall (Warsaw, Virginia)
United States of America -- Virginia -- Richmond County -- Warsaw
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets and photocopies from publications.
General:
Sabine Hall is a plantation residence in the Georgian style built by Robert "King" Carter for his son Colonel Landon Carter, circa 1730, on a property of 4,000 acres, in an axial plan with formal parterre gardens. Sabine Hall was named for Horace's Roman villa and passed down through the Carter family for nine generations. The family kept the original geometric plan intact, although not all the beds were planted over time. Facing the Rappahannock River, and encompassing several hundred feet are six terraced beds with connecting grass ramps, with a centered gravel walk nearly six feet wide leading from the porch steps into the first terrace. Gravel walks continued to at least the second and third terraces. The first terrace, planted in grass, was called a bowling green. There were formal flower beds planted in a symmetrical English style on the second terrace. The third terrace was likely planted in small fruits and medicinal herbs, the fourth and fifth terraces planted in vegetables, and the sixth with fruit trees. There was another vegetable garden (the kitchen garden) planted with necessities that did not conform to the aesthetics of the parterres, planted beyond the boxwood hedges, out of sight from the house. The fifth and sixth terraces were not maintained into the 20th century, but the outlines remain. The borders were hedged in boxwood. The front portico of the house has leads to a planted lawn surrounded and interplanted with both native and imported tree species.
Colonel Landon Carter is presumed to have been responsible for the initial geometrical design of the garden, based on 17th century English and Continental precepts. Indentured English gardeners may have been early workers, as well as slaves passed down through family bequests. The third owner, Robert Wormeley Carter, named slave gardeners in his will of 1794.
Flowers mentioned by Landon Carter include bulbs, roses, and wildflowers. Vegetables included artichokes, French beans, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, endives, lettuce, melons, mushrooms, onions, parsley, peas, potatoes, radishes, savoys, spinach, and turnips.
Following ownership by Colonel Landon Carter (1710-1778) and his wife Elizabeth Wormeley of Rosegill, the estate passed to Robert Wormeley Carter and his wife Winifred Beale; then to their son Colonel Landon Carter II and his wife Katharine Tayloe of Mount Airy; next to Robert Wormeley Carter II and his wife Elizabeth Merrie Tayloe of Mount Airy. Ownership then skipped a generation and went to Robert Carter Wellford (a grandson) in 1861, who married Elizabeth Harrison of Berkeley. She died in 1919, leaving Sabine Hall to two sons, Armistead Nelson Wellford and his wife Katherine Davis and William Harrison Wellford and his wife Ida Beverly. The property was passed on to ensuing sons, the Reverend Dabney S. Wellford and Hill B. Wellford.
Persons associated with the garden include the Carter family (1730) and their descendents.
Related Materials:
Sabine Hall related holdings consist of 1 folder (12 35 mm. slides (photographs))
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Virginia -- Warsaw  Search this
Plantations  Search this
Gardens, English  Search this
Vegetable gardening  Search this
Parterres  Search this
Terraces  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File VA009
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The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Virginia
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6978b12aa-84e7-4a13-abe2-452ff77d35dd
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref18924

Knoxville -- VanDeventer-Haslam Garden

Photographer:
Colquitt, Elle  Search this
Owner:
Haslam, Bill, 1958-  Search this
Haslam, Crissy  Search this
Landscape architect:
Jensen, Jens, 1860-1951  Search this
Page, Ben  Search this
Architect:
Barber, Charles Ives, 1887-1962  Search this
Provenance:
Knoxville Garden Club  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
VanDeventer-Haslam Garden (Knoxville, Tennessee)
United States of America -- Tennessee -- Knox County -- Knoxville
Scope and Contents:
29 digital images (2021-2022).
General:
The VanDeventer-Haslam Garden is located in West Knox County, Tennessee along the Tennessee River. Established in 1924, the 66.6-acre property offers examples of the work of landscape architect Jens Jensen. In, 2018 Nashville landscape architect Ben Page was selected by the owners, former Tennessee Governor Bill and Crissy Haslam, to supervise the restoration of the woodland, meadow, formal and informal gardens.

Jen Jensen's design blueprints, personal correspondence, and hand-written plant lists remain in the owner's possession, as do historic photos of the property. The original plans for the estate focused on several sites including the swimming hole, tennis court, woodland garden, rose garden, and the gardens surrounding the house. Ben Page's thoughtful restoration celebrates the graceful curves, native plants, woodland pathways, and stone hardscape laid down nearly a century ago. At the same time, he has invigorated the property with his brand of modern aesthetic.

The woodland hillside "swimming hole" is as alluring as it was generations ago with invisible improvements allowing for easier more efficient maintenance. Adjacent to the swimming hole, a council ring, and fire pit still welcome warm gatherings. This wooded wonderland is bordered by a stone wall and features the original his and her changing rooms. The former tennis court and rose garden have been replaced with a revived players' green, pickleball court, and treehouse. A home originally built for a furniture maker remains and the nearby stone workshop has been transformed into a playhouse. The traditional gardens surrounding the residence consist mostly of boxwoods and deer-resistant perennials. Throughout the property, an effort has been undertaken to restore the native wildflowers and trees. Originally called "Konnaseetah," which means "dogwood" in Native Cherokee the property is laden with East Tennessee's favorite flowering tree. Descendants of original trillium and fern proliferate in the woods.

In addition to the restoration and re-imaginings of the Jensen features, the Haslams have made other additions to the property. A new entrance allows for safer access while still ascending through the woods to the circular driveway and home. From the home's back yard, when the surrounding hardwoods lose their leaves, there is a wide view of the river. On the sweeping green behind the residence, a modern pool provides a more formal centerpiece for entertaining and when the hardwoods drop their leaves, a wide view of the river remains. New seating areas are in keeping with the home's architecture and are substantial modern additions, fully expected to survive the next century or two with grace.

The English Revival Tudor house was designed by local architect Charles Barber in 1924.
Persons associated with the design of the garden include Jens Jensen (landscape architect, 1924), Mr. Beardsley (gardener, 1924-), Ben Page (landsacpe architect, 2018), Brian Campbell (gardener, 2019-).
Provenance:
The Knoxville Garden Club facilitated the 2022 garden documentation.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Tennessee -- Knoxville  Search this
Formal gardens  Search this
Historic landscapes  Search this
Meadows  Search this
Night gardens  Search this
Native plant gardens  Search this
Rock gardens  Search this
Gardening in the shade  Search this
Woodland gardens  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File TN128
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Tennessee
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb61c1e0bac-41e2-42f2-852a-4c5f4d653e83
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref33276

Regenerative Landscaping-How to Make Residential & Municipal Landscapes Part of the Climate Solution

Creator:
Smithsonian Gardens  Search this
Type:
Lectures
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2022-10-21T04:00:02.000Z
YouTube Category:
Education  Search this
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Gardens  Search this
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Clarice Smith Virtual Lecture Series: Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora)

Creator:
Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
Lectures
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2020-10-29T22:30:00.000Z
YouTube Category:
Education  Search this
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
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Kristen Morgin - Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016

Creator:
Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2016-11-02T17:06:37.000Z
YouTube Category:
Education  Search this
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Art, American  Search this
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¡Printing the Revolution! Highlights Reel

Creator:
Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2020-12-03T20:28:08.000Z
YouTube Category:
Education  Search this
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
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2022 Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures – May 5, 2022 (Day 2)

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
Lectures
YouTube Videos
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2022-06-22T14:20:37.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Art, American  Search this
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American Art in Dialogue with Africa - 6 - Developing a Trans-African Aesthetic

Creator:
Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
Symposia
YouTube Videos
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2013-11-06T15:07:29.000Z
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Sylvia Kahan - Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman - Art Discussion, SAAM

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2016-06-22T14:50:14.000Z
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“¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now" at SAAM

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2020-11-20T21:44:19.000Z
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Cassandra Langer - Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman - Art Discussion, SAAM

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2016-06-22T14:55:01.000Z
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Art, American  Search this
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Meet the Artist: Rupert García on the Influence of Social Justice Icons in His Printmaking

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
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2022-01-20T18:17:36.000Z
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Conserving Art on Paper

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2009-01-16T21:07:10.000Z
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Art, American  Search this
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Helen Langa - Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman - Art Discussion, SAAM

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
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2016-06-22T14:55:34.000Z
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Art, American  Search this
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Living Wild: Designing a Living Home

Creator:
National Museum of African American History and Culture  Search this
Type:
Conversations and talks
YouTube Videos
Uploaded:
2023-04-17T07:13:55.000Z
YouTube Category:
Education  Search this
Topic:
African Americans  Search this
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
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A Tribute to Tito Mato: Part 1

Creator:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
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2022-11-19T00:22:40.000Z
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Entertainment  Search this
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Cultural property  Search this
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Global Religions of Africa Speaker. - Beyond Aesthetics: Reflection on the Art of Okuku Headdress

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National Museum of African Art  Search this
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2020-07-06T13:45:09.000Z
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Oral history interview with George Biddle, 1963

Interviewee:
Biddle, George, 1885-  Search this
Interviewer:
Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington),, 1920-  Search this
Subject:
Bacon, Peggy  Search this
Benton, Thomas Hart  Search this
Billings, Henry  Search this
Bruce, Edward  Search this
Cahill, Holger  Search this
Demuth, Charles  Search this
Evergood, Philip  Search this
Grosz, George  Search this
Halpert, Edith Gregor  Search this
Hartley, Marsden  Search this
Marsh, Reginald  Search this
Miller, Kenneth Hayes  Search this
Orozco, José Clemente  Search this
Rivera, Diego  Search this
Robinson, Boardman  Search this
Siqueiros, David Alfaro  Search this
Sterne, Maurice  Search this
Stieglitz, Alfred  Search this
Tamayo, Rufino  Search this
Weber, Max  Search this
Zorach, William  Search this
Cassatt, Mary  Search this
Pascin, Jules  Search this
Poor, Henry Varnum  Search this
Curry, John Steuart  Search this
Bouché, Louis  Search this
Kroll, Leon  Search this
Zorach, William  Search this
Public Works of Art Project  Search this
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with George Biddle, 1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Art -- Censorship  Search this
Federal aid to the arts  Search this
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this
Sculptors -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this
Theme:
New Deal  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)12696
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213269
AAA_collcode_biddle63
Theme:
New Deal
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213269
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Culturas visuales indígenas y las prácticas estéticas en las Américas desde la antigüedad hasta el presente = Indigenous visual cultures and aesthetic practices in the Americas' past and present Sanja Savkić (edition) en colaboración con Hannah Baader

Title:
Indigenous visual cultures and aesthetic practices in the Americas' past and present
Editor:
Savkić, Sanja  Search this
Baader, Hannah  Search this
Copyright holder:
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin, Germany)  Search this
Physical description:
431 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Latin America
Amérique latine
Date:
2019
Topic:
Indian aesthetics  Search this
Indian art  Search this
Indian cosmology  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Arts and society  Search this
Indigenous peoples  Search this
American Indian or Alaska Native  Search this
Esthétique indienne d'Amérique  Search this
Cosmologie indienne d'Amérique  Search this
Peuples autochtones--Habitat urbain  Search this
Peuples autochtones--Antiquités  Search this
Peuples autochtones  Search this
Arts et société  Search this
Indians  Search this
Indians--Antiquities  Search this
Urban Indians  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1161296

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