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Leather Album Page

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

The Grizzly, 1925

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.31
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a grizzly bear bronze. Remarks of the photograph include, "Modelled and given by Charlie to my daughter for Christmas, 1925. Signed, 'To Today from C.M.R.'"

Dates: 1925

The Indian Family, 1914

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.13
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze book-end of an Indian man, Grosvent Father, contemplating. Remarks about the photograph include, "The father is contentedly dreaming of the time when his young son will make a great name for himself and possibly become a chief of one of the societies, or a Medicine Man."

Dates: 1914

The Indian Family, 1914

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.14
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze bookend with an Indian mother and her baby of the Tribe of Grosvents. Remarks about the photograph include, "A proud and happy Grosvent mother showing her young offspring to Sun."

Dates: 1914

The Last Laugh, 1916

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.18
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of bronze wolf. Remarks about the photograph include, "In the olden days on the Western plains men trapped the wolf for his pelt, or for bait with which to catch other animals. Here Charlie shows the wolf having the last laugh."

Dates: 1916

The Medicine Man, 1920

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.20
Description Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Indian man called the Medicine Man. Remarks about the photograph include, "This is a Sun Priest who has had a powerful helper come to him in his dreams and offer to help him in whatever he may do; thus he may call upon his sacred helper and Sun to aid him and his people. This medicine man is calling upon the bear for strength; the wolf for smartness; and the otter for cunning, as he has a bear's paw, a wolf's skull and an otter's skin on his...
Dates: 1920

The Mountain Mother, 1924

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.27
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a mother bear and her two cubs in bronze. Remarks about the photograph include, "Mother and cubs hunting ants on the old pine top. She is scolding one of the cubs who is reaching too far over the edge and might slip off."

Dates: 1924

The Mountain Sheep, 1924

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.26
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze sheep with horns. The remarks of the photograph include, "These mountain sheep inhabit the Rockies and are very sure footed. They can travel over slippery rock and other bad places where no other animal could go."

Dates: 1924

The Pig, January 1925

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.29
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze pig. Remarks about the photograph include, "Charlie modelled this piece for my little daughter from was in our home in Jamaica, Long Island."

Dates: January 1925

The Range Father, 1926

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.34
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze stallion chasing a coyote. Remarks include, "Coyotes in numbers will attack and kill young colts. Hence this stallion is protecting his bunch of mares and colts by chasing and often killing the coyote with one stroke of his front hoof on the coyote's back."

Dates: 1926

The Robe Flesher, 1925

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.32
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze of a woman cleaning a buffalo hide. The remarks of the photograph include, "After a kill of buffalo and the meat and hides have been brought into camp the hide, or robe, is staked out on the ground and the woman with a sharp-edged bone scrapes all of the flesh and fat from the hide preparing it for tanning."

Dates: 1925