#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

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #Native Americans #Gros Ventre #Hidatsa #Water Busters #Midi Badi #repatriation #looted goods #cultural patrimony #Jan. 13 #Heye Foundation #Museum of the American Indian #January 13

[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.

#archaeology #nerd stuff #museum of the American Indian #Clovis points #Clovis people

[lisamarie-vee]

#r.c. gorman #museum of the american indian #1970s #native american art #painting #printmaking

[pointandshooter]

The National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

#national museum of the american indian #architecture #black and white photography #washington dc #photographers on tumblr

[lionofchaeronea]

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

#art #art history #Henry F. Farny #genre painting #Native American #American Indian #American West #Old West #Wild West #American art #Western art #20th century art #oil on canvas #Taft Museum of Art

[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.

#animals in art #Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian #museum visit #Chimu art #Peruvian art #IndigenousArt #pre conquest art #ceramics #Two for Tuesday #duck #bird #birds in art #feline #puma #Andean art

[garadinervi]

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

#art #drawing #visual writing #pictogram #winter count #national museum of the american indian #smithsonian institution #no date

[christophermtaylor]

National Museum of the Indian American

#Nation Museum of the Indian American #washington #washington dc #us capitol #museum #Architecture #ArchDaily #Architectural Photography #photographers on tumblr #cmt photography #usa

[fashionsfromhistory]

Dress

Niimíipuu (Nez Perce) People

c.1920

National Museum of the American Indian (Catalog Number: 22/581)

Learn More about the Niimíipuu (Nez Perce) People on their website: https://nezperce.org/

#dress #fashion history #niimiipuu #nez perce #1920s #indigenous americans #native american #20th century #leather #beading #1920 #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #national museum of the american indian

[disarmluna]

#lily gladstone #fashion #style #killers of the flower moon #national museum of american indian

[istandonsnowpiles]

Have a Seat

#black and white #dc #national museum of the american indian #national museum of the american #washington #august #around dc #my work #photography

[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

#I've only been to DC once since the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened and I wasn't able to go bc the #timed tickets for the day were all sold out :( but I'm going to attempt to go later this year #idk I feel very passionately about the smithsonians... one of my favorite childhood memories is the family trip we took there #and I walked around the natural history museum with a notebook and wrote down all my favorite things I saw that day ahaha #and the air & space museum really is just incredible. my dad has Space Race Boomer Brain but I was always really interested #in how his mind was so CAPTURED by the space race and by space exploration and him seeing the first man on the moon #and that bled into me appreciating that museum a lot #but seriously the american indian museum is just a feat to behold. just incredible. #and — I'd argue — the MOST important museum to view if you wanted to truly grasp the weight of the stories our country tries to tell itself

[internationalemeteorologie]

Grace Hudson 

Boy with Fox. 1922

#grace hudson #painting #realism #portraiture #pomo indians #american artist #women artists #national museum of wildlife #jkm collection

[pointandshooter]

National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

#architecture #national museum of the american indian #washington dc #black and white photography #photographers on tumblr

[lionofchaeronea]

Ni-a-có-mo, Fix With the Foot, a Brave, George Catlin, 1830

#art #art history #George Catlin #portrait #portrait painting #Native American #American Indian #indigenous peoples #American art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Smithsonian American Art Museum

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #TextileTuesday:

Inka cotton coca bag with llama designs, Peru south coast, c.1450-1532 Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian collection

#animals in art #Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian #indigenous art #Inca art #Inka art #South American art #pre conquest art #cotton #textiles #Textile Tuesday #museum visit #exhibition #bag #llama #llamas