Cigar Store Indians are three-dimensional wooden sculptures traditionally used as trade signs. The practice dates to the 1600s. As ships from America began bringing tobacco back to England, cigar shop owners displayed the figures outside their stores to attract the...
History This monumental pole is a significant piece of Northwest Coast art and Seattle history that was previously owned by Joseph Edward “Daddy” Standley, the founder of the iconic Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in...
The Ostuw collection features Crow, Blackfeet and Sioux shirts, all brain tanned with one repurposed Canadian mounted police jacket. Of note is the complete outfit - shirt, leggings, and blanket belonging to "Lone Star" Deitz, a Hidatsa war shirt worn...
Julian and Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo, n.d.Wyatt Davis (American, born 1906) gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)Courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA) #4591 Maria and Julian Martinez, of the San Ildefonso Pueblo,...
Gauntlets have been around for centuries and were originally designed to protect European and Asian bow hunters and military archers from the snapping of their bowstrings. Leather gauntlets appeared in the American West as military uniform accessories. They were soon...
Interestingly enough, many Native Americans believe the legends about where their horses came from - given to them by their highest god for their survival or as a reward. The reality is that the horse evolved in America but became...
