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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES FACET\Design Elements\design elements\motifs\natural element motifs\

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

"Amid the rocks and ferns, forever down", early 20th century

 Item — Folder 427: [Barcode: 127.427]
Identifier: 4017.2479
Description Folder 427 Transcript (DCI) star in a black pool, and the faint lisp of water. "Maji m'zuri!" repeated my guide. I dropped on all fours, bent low, and drank; the water was cool and sweet. Little secret sounds as of insects -- little glimmers like elfin eyes -- a dead leaf fell to the water's surface and floated past my nose. "Tut kwnda?" (Shall we be going?) I said, getting to my feet. My host led the way up a branch canyon over a riot of...
Dates: early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1963.125, Manuscript Collection: William R. Leigh

Bacon Rind, 1850 - 1900

 Item — Folder Osage.2: [Barcode: 3.Osage.2]
Identifier: 4327.4329a-b
Description

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

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

"Dead World - Earth's pallid satellite", early 20th century

 Item — Folder 421: [Barcode: 127.421]
Identifier: 4027.8524-.1
Description Folder 421 Transcript (DCI) I. Dead World - Earths' pallid satellite - How soul-inspiring is thy light; How wondrous and sublime thy bright And mystic face! How grand and awful is thy flight Through boundless space: 2. Would that my soul like thee could soar, Bound by Earth's petty bonds no more, Soar where soul never ranged before; From height to height, The birth-place of the stars explore, In one vast flight! 3. Would that my thoughts...
Dates: early 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1963.125, Manuscript Collection: William R. Leigh

Discharge Paper for Sidney S. Dailey, August 11,1865

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: 5126.184
Description

This is a discharge paper for Sidney S. Dailey from the Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers at Nashville, Tennessee.

Dates: August 11,1865
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1970.45, Civil War Papers

Figures and Animals, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.792.1-2
Description

Pencil and brown ink sketches of a man on horseback, man in sombrero, faces and bodies, and some writing on "Porter's Hotel" stationery (TU2009.39.792.1). On reverse is a figure outline in ink (TU2009.39.792.2).



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Pencil and brown ink sketches of a man on horseback, man in sombrero, faces and bodies, and some writing on "Porter's Hotel" stationery (TU2009.39.792.1). On reverse is a figure outline in ink (TU2009.39.792.2).

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

Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.21
Description

Star (identified by the small star dawn above his head), shoots a standing bear from horseback. The danger and power of the bear are depicted through his long extended claws and strong jaws. 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. Hansen, Curator Emerita and Senior Scholar for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2016.

Dates: 1887
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.017, Manuscript Collection: Fort Reno Ledger Drawings / Evans Fort Reno Ledger Drawings

Home of Quanah Parker in the Wichita Mountain, The Comanche White House, 1898

 Item — Folder Comanche.13: [Barcode: 3.Comanche.13]
Identifier: 4336.3850a-b
Description

Folder 13

Dates: 1898
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Newspaper clipping corncerning Charles M. Russell Indian illustration to be used in book, April 8, 1928

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.5162
Description

Georgian Atlanta, April 8, 1928, Charles M. Russell Indian Illustration to be used in book.

Dates: April 8, 1928
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.018, Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman)

Proclamation calling on U. S. citizens to refrain from supporting those who have invaded Canada, November 21, 1838

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 208.1]
Identifier: 5126.698
Description

Folder 1

Dates: November 21, 1838
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1970.206, Manuscript Collection: Martin Van Buren

To-sho-way or Silver Knife, 1872

 Item — Folder Comanche.9: [Barcode: 3.Comanche.9]
Identifier: 4336.3871
Description

Folder 9

Dates: 1872
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / PC.OklahomaNativeAmerican, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

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