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1. Gas Valve and Burner Fitting Gas Valve and Burner Fitting United States; Electricity; Gas lighting; American inventions This fitting is made of cast brass and has fleur-de-les ornamentation. A pipe with a threaded socket screw connects the fitting.
2. Native American Moccasins (pair) Native American Moccasins (pair) Footwear; Moccasins; Clothing & dress; Apparel; Native American; Indians of North America; Shoes; Leather; Algonquin Moccasins are footwear made of leather. This pair has soft deerskin uppers and hardened rawhide soles; they are stitched entirely by hand. The uppers are decorated with white, red and blue beads sewn on...
3. Native American Wedding Belt Native American Wedding Belt Marriage; Weddings; Wedding costume; Belts; Native American; Indians of North America; Clothing & dress; Beaded; Beads; Decorations The main section of the belt is 4" wide and 20-1/2" long. It is made of black wool and lined on the back with brown linen; the edges are trimmed with green silk. The front is decorated with tiny glass...
4. Native American Cradle Board Native American Cradle Board Native American; American Indian; Indians of North America; Baby; Cradle; Infant Baby cradle board made of pine wood. Curved wood at the top is attached in three places with leather strips. One end is square, the other is scalloped with 6 scallops. Carvings on both sides of scalloped...
5. Men's formal wear Men's formal wear Fashion--History; Fashion industry; Weddings; Wedding costume; Clothing Drawing, color, pen and ink
6. Men's beachwear Men's beachwear Fashion--History; Fashion industry Photograph, b/w
7. Men's suit Men's suit Fashion--history; Fashion industry; Clothing Drawing, pen and ink
8. Kickapoo Band Kickapoo Band McLean County, Illinois; Kickapoo Nation; Music; Bands; Musical instruments; Indians of North America Members of the Kickapoo Band are seated with instruments. The band was at Kickapoo School, Brown County, Kansas.
9. Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant McLean County, Illinois; Kickapoo Nation; Maize; Tassel; Plants; Indians of North America The Kickapoo used various words in the diagram to identify parts of the corn plant.
10. Kickapoo Grand Village Monument Kickapoo Grand Village Monument McLean County, Illinois; Kickapoo Nation; Monuments & memorials; Indians of North America; A historical marker was placed at the site of the Grand Village of the Kickapoo in Ellsworth, Illinois, by the McLean County Historical Society in 1905.
11. Recovered Indian Corn Fragments Recovered Indian Corn Fragments McLean County, Illinois; Kickapoo; Archaeological sites; Corn; Indians of North America Fragments of corn recovered from the Grand Village of the Kickapoo in 1972.
12. Kickapoo Dwelling (Bark Hut) Kickapoo Dwelling (Bark Hut) McLean County, Illinois; Kansas; Kickapoo Nation; Dwellings; Indians of North America; After leaving McLean County, the Kickapoo fled westward. This dwelling was photographed in Brown County, Kansas, about 1906.
13. Archaeologists at Noble-Wieting, Illinois Archaeologists at Noble-Wieting, Illinois McLean County, Illinois; Archaeological sites; Maize; Corn; Kickapoo; Archaeology; Indians of North America Illinois State University students study the remains at the Noble-Wieting archaeological site in 1972, a former Indian mound in McLean County. The site is in Heyworth, Illinois.
14. Web site: Valley of the Shadow Web site: Valley of the Shadow Civil War; Newspapers; Augusta County, Virginia; Franklin County, Pennsylvania The Valley of the Shadow web site takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for...
15. Native American Doll Native American Doll Toys; Dolls; Native American; Children; Playthings; Entertainment; Indians of North America This girl doll is made of buckskin. She is dressed in a tan buckskin dress with fringe at the sides, bottom and sleeves. The dress is decorated with lines of white beads sewn just above the bottom fringe,...
16. Native American Spider Gorget Native American Spider Gorget Jewelry; Body Armor; Shells; Native American; Southern Illinois; Archaeology; Gorgets; Indians of North America Round marine shells with spider designs carved onto them. The shells are about 3" in diameter.
17. Native American Water Basket Native American Water Basket Containers; Woven baskets; Native American; Housewares; Indians of North America A basket woven in an ovoid shape with rounded bottom, flaring sharply from neck to a wide opening at the top. There are two wide leather strap handles attached at the widest part of the body, positioned...
18. Native American Spider Gorget Native American Spider Gorget Jewelry; Body Armor; Shells; Native American; Southern Illinois; Archaeology; Gorgets; Indians of North America Round marine shells with spider designs carved onto them. The shells are about 3" in diameter.
19. Meskawki Lodge Meskawki Lodge Mesquakie; Tipi; Wigwam; Powwow; Pow wow; Bark; Lodge; Fox; Wikiup; Sauk and Fox Tribe; Woodland Indians; Indians of North America Traditional house form utilized by Woodland Indians of the Great Lakes Region. Meskwaki settlement near Tama, Iowa. 1905.
20. Tile, Drainage Tile, Drainage Drainage; Farming; Farmers; Agriculture; History; Champaign County, Illinois Long Ceramic Field Tile. Trumpet-shaped with flared end at the bottom. Tapererd with an enlarged ring and narrow fitting rim on the other end. Hand thrown.
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