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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\MATERIALS FACET\Materials\materials\materials by origin\animal material\collagenous material\

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Black blade sharpener with brown alligator skin-like handle, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.243
Description

Black sharpener with brown alligator skin-like handle and ends of sharpening strip; "Finish" side is dark tan leather, and the sharpening side has been detached and is now attached to top metal loop with a rope; handle is stamped, "Nev-a-hone razor___New York, Guaranteed".

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.018, Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman)

Charles M. Russell, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8347
Description

Photograph of Charles M Russell wrapped in hide, dressed as an Indian. Russell stands in front of cabin.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.018, Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman)

Copy of letter from Secretary of War J. H. Eaton to Colonel Ward, August 2, 1830

 Item — Folder 40: [Barcode: 187.40]
Identifier: 4026.77-.9
Description

Copy of letter from Secretary of War J. H. Eaton to Colonel Ward transmitting a copy of his July 29th letter to Colonel Montgomery, Cherokee Agent, setting forth the President's views on Indian removal. Five folded sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on 19 pages. Folder 40



Inscription(s)

Inscribed in ink on recto, "Copy"

Dates: August 2, 1830
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.90
Description A Bowstring Society member wearing a flared eagle feather bonnet with ermine skins uses his lance to wound an enemy. His society membership is shown through his distinctive feathered lance wrapped in red trade cloth. His rifle lies on the ground and he carries a blue painted shield with many eagle feathers. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings from Fort Reno, Plains Indian Art, Created in Community. Emma I....
Dates: 1887
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.017, Manuscript Collection: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings / Evans Fort Reno Ledger Drawings

Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1879

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.19.83
Description Dressed in a soldier's uniform and wearing a hair pipe breast plate and distinctive kit fox skin that symbolizes his position, a leader of the Kit Fox warrior society, struggles for a knife in hand-to-hand combat with a Nez Perce. The Nez Perce wears a short capote and blue pants with garters. This drawing likely shows the same event illustrated by an unknown artist in the Little Wolf Band Ledger (Powell, 1975, pp. 46-47). From the article: Preserving History in the Southern...
Dates: 1879
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.017, Manuscript Collection: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings / Creel Fort Reno Ledger Drawings

Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.43
Description While his horse stands by, Big Horse – wearing an otter skin turban, German silver hair plates, painted and beaded and painted hide leggings and wrapped in a red and blue blanket with a beaded or quillwork strip – courts a woman. The woman is beautifully attired in an elk tooth dress, concho belt with a drop, a printed cloth shawl, and yellow painted moccasins with attached leggings. The yellow and green pigments on the moccasins and leggings were used extensively in the Southern Plains....
Dates: 1887
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.017, Manuscript Collection: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings / Evans Fort Reno Ledger Drawings

Kicking Bird's Camp, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Kiowa.7: [Barcode: 3.Kiowa.7]
Identifier: 4326.4074a-b
Description

2 copies of this photograph exist in the Gilcrease Photography Collection Folder 7



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Kiowa, Kicking Bird's Camp" on verso

Dates: 1850 - 1900
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Newspaper clipping with photo of painting "Buffalo Drive", mid-20th century

 Item — Folder 479: [Barcode: 127.479]
Identifier: 5327.533.2
Description

Folder 479

Dates: mid-20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1963.125, Manuscript Collection: William R. Leigh

Painted Hide, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.6582
Description

A painted hide with horses on it.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.018, Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman)

Photo of interior of house

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.4668
Description

Photo of the interior of a house with a chair and bear skin rug to the right of a set of stairs.

Dates: [no date]
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.018, Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman)

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