Cultures & Communities - Overview
Furniture, cooking wares, clothing, works of art, and many other kinds of artifacts are part of what knit people into communities and cultures. The Museum’s collections feature artifacts from European Americans, Latinos, Arab Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, African Americans, Gypsies, Jews, and Christians, both Catholics and Protestants. The objects range from ceramic face jugs made by enslaved African Americans in South Carolina to graduation robes and wedding gowns. The holdings also include artifacts associated with education, such as teaching equipment, textbooks, and two complete schoolrooms. Uniforms, insignia, and other objects represent a wide variety of civic and voluntary organizations, including youth and fraternal groups, scouting, police forces, and firefighters.
"Cultures & Communities - Overview" showing 5 items.
Electrotype of "Hu'petha"
- Description
- This electrotype of “Hu’petha” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate 28 (p.163) in an article by Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923) and Francis La Flesche (1857-1932) entitled “The Omaha Tribe” in the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1905-1906.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1911
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Flecher, Alice C.
- LaFlesche, Francis
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- ID Number
- 2000.0207.066
- catalog number
- 2000.0207.066
- accession number
- 2000.0207
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Electrotype of "Incidents in the life of Jaw (drawing by himself)"
- Description
- This electrotype of “Incidents in the life of Jaw (drawing by himself)” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate 63 (p.392) in an article by David I. Bushnell, Jr. (1875-1941) entitled Frances Densmore (1867-1957) entitled “Teton Sioux Music” in Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61, (1918).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Densmore, Frances
- ID Number
- 2000.0207.104
- catalog number
- 2000.0207.104
- accession number
- 2000.0207
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Electrotype of "Feathers"
- Description
- This electrotype of “Feathers” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate 81 (p.176) in an article by Alfred Vincent Kidder (1885-1963) and Samuel J. Guernsey (1868-1936) entitled “Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona” in Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61, (1919).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1919
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Kidder, Alfred Vincent
- Guernsey, Samuel J.
- ID Number
- 2000.0207.122
- catalog number
- 2000.0207.122
- accession number
- 2000.0207
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Electrotype of “Corn from basket maker caves"
- Description
- This electrotype of “Corn from basket maker caves” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate 65 (p.152) in an article by Alfred Vincent Kidder (1885-1963) and Samuel J. Guernsey (1868-1936) entitled “Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona” in Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61, (1919).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1919
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Kidder, Alfred Vincent
- Guernsey, Samuel J.
- ID Number
- 2000.0207.124
- catalog number
- 2000.0207.124
- accession number
- 2000.0207
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Electrotype of "Ruins in Northeastern Arizona"
- Description
- This electrotype of ruins in Northeastern Arizona was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate 14 (p.48) in an article by Alfred Vincent Kidder (1885-1963) and Samuel J. Guernsey (1868-1936) entitled “Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona” in Bureau of American Ethnology,Bulletin 61, (1919).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1919
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Kidder, Alfred Vincent
- Guernsey, Samuel J.
- ID Number
- 2000.0207.130
- catalog number
- 2000.0207.130
- accession number
- 2000.0207
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center