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Leather Album Page

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

The Scalp Dancer, 1914

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.15
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Indian known as the scalp dancer. Remarks about the photograph include, "This Crow, one of a party just returned from a raid against the enemy, is celebrating their victory with feasting, dancing and counting their coup."

Dates: 1914

The Snake Priest, 1914

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.17
Description Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Indian, Hopi Medicine Man, and a rattle snake. Remarks for the photograph include, "the rattle snake is very sacred among the Hopi Indians as he has the power to bring rain and many are used to carry out their religious snake dance. Snake priests go out into the desert to catch as many as they need and in order to catch them they tickle them with a bunch of eagle feathers called 'a snake whip' until they uncoil and start to wriggle away. The...
Dates: 1914

The Spirit of Winter, 1926

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.35
Description Leather album page of bronze of a man with wolves. The figure is supposed to be Blackfoot Spirit with wolves. Remarks include, "this is an Indian fable of how winter came about. Winter is called by the Blackfoot Indians 'Cold Maker' and this bronze represents him. In the long ago, an Indian died who had been treated badly by his people. He was buried on a scaffold up in the branches of a Cottonwood. One night the wolves came along and pulled his body down from the tree, but found him too...
Dates: 1926

The Texas Steer, 1925

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.33
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze steer. The marks of the photograph include, "After a long drive on the cattle trails, the steers after feeding are ready to bed down for the night and chew their cud in solid contentment."

Dates: 1925

The Wolf, 1925

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.30
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a wolf bronze. Remarks about the photograph include, "Modelled for my daughter in wax by Charlie while visiting us in Jamaica, Long Island."

Dates: 1925

To Noses that Read a Smell that Spells Man, 1920

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.21
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze wolf. The remarks of the photograph include, "This wolf in his wanderings has come upon a deserted camp-ground and there finds scents which he doesn't like, as denoted by the snarl. Man has been here and that means danger."

Dates: 1920

Weapons of the Weak, 1921

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.23
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze grizzly bear and a porcupine. The remarks of the photograph include, "The grizzly is the most powerful animal of the West; therefore, this bronze is most interesting in that it shows the mighty grizzly stepping one side for the slow, weak and unassuming porcupine."

Dates: 1921

Where the Best of Riders Quit, 1920

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.22
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze cowboy falling off of a horse. The remarks for the photograph include, "Some broncos have a habit of throwing themselves over backward with the intention of falling on the rider and killing him; thus it behooves the cowboy to quit before he is caught."

Dates: 1920