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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
A Challenge Part III: Seminoles and Southern Plains
Again, Handbook of North American Indians vol. 14, pg 451...
The Seminoles maintained cordial if sometimes strained relations with the other removed Southeast tribes and cooperated with them in matters of mutual concern. Relations with the neighboring Creek proved problematic throughout the nineteenth century, but they resolved their differences through diplomacy, often including meditation and invention by United States officials. The Seminoles also maintained cordial relations with relocated Midwestern tribes, settled to the west of them after the Civil War. The Seminoles traded with all these groups, particularly with the Plains tribes. Prior to the Civil War, the Seminoles undertook annual summer trading expeditions westward to the Great Salt Plains (north-central Oklahoma), where they traded with the Southern Plains tribes.
This may help support the family story:
In the summer of 1877... enroute to Spokane, Washington and traveled through the Billings area. He acquired this belt by trading for it with an indian who had participated in the battle [Little Big Horn].
The Seminoles maintained cordial if sometimes strained relations with the other removed Southeast tribes and cooperated with them in matters of mutual concern. Relations with the neighboring Creek proved problematic throughout the nineteenth century, but they resolved their differences through diplomacy, often including meditation and invention by United States officials. The Seminoles also maintained cordial relations with relocated Midwestern tribes, settled to the west of them after the Civil War. The Seminoles traded with all these groups, particularly with the Plains tribes. Prior to the Civil War, the Seminoles undertook annual summer trading expeditions westward to the Great Salt Plains (north-central Oklahoma), where they traded with the Southern Plains tribes.
This may help support the family story:
In the summer of 1877... enroute to Spokane, Washington and traveled through the Billings area. He acquired this belt by trading for it with an indian who had participated in the battle [Little Big Horn].
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Well, I have been unsuccessful at the moment in tracking down the family history on the sash - but still working on it. Ancestory.com is a great website for genealogy - as is FamilySearch.org, a site run by the Church of the Later Day Saints.
While I am wading through those records, you may enjoy this.
last quarter 19th century
depicting images from the Bear Mother myth; a male bear holds captive an upside-down deceased human, noted by the hollowed eyes; the female bear, opposite, wears a frog headpiece while and a shaman's head tops the sculpture. Curio label The Indian Bazaar/ 36 Johnson Street/ Victoria, B.C. pasted on base, length 10.25" x width 2.75" x height 6.25".
The Indian Bazaar was established in 1884 by John J. Hart (1833-1900). Located at 36 Johnson Street, Hart and his then partner Jacob Isaacs remained there until 1889 when they moved to 43 Johnson Street. Hart died in 1900 and the shop closed in 1908. The curio trade was in demand throughout the late 19th century and during this time, Hart supplied numerous ethnographic pieces for the Chicago Wold's Fair in 1893 as well as other prominent collectors and ethnologists including Franz Boas (Tobe 1999:3-18; Brown 2000: 120-121).
1999 Tobe, Sarah.
"J.J. Hart on the Map". The Scribe: The Journal of the Jewish Historical Society of B.C. Volume XIX, No.1: Vancouver.
1998 Brown, Steven C.
Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
While I am wading through those records, you may enjoy this.
last quarter 19th century
depicting images from the Bear Mother myth; a male bear holds captive an upside-down deceased human, noted by the hollowed eyes; the female bear, opposite, wears a frog headpiece while and a shaman's head tops the sculpture. Curio label The Indian Bazaar/ 36 Johnson Street/ Victoria, B.C. pasted on base, length 10.25" x width 2.75" x height 6.25".
The Indian Bazaar was established in 1884 by John J. Hart (1833-1900). Located at 36 Johnson Street, Hart and his then partner Jacob Isaacs remained there until 1889 when they moved to 43 Johnson Street. Hart died in 1900 and the shop closed in 1908. The curio trade was in demand throughout the late 19th century and during this time, Hart supplied numerous ethnographic pieces for the Chicago Wold's Fair in 1893 as well as other prominent collectors and ethnologists including Franz Boas (Tobe 1999:3-18; Brown 2000: 120-121).
1999 Tobe, Sarah.
"J.J. Hart on the Map". The Scribe: The Journal of the Jewish Historical Society of B.C. Volume XIX, No.1: Vancouver.
1998 Brown, Steven C.
Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
A Challenge - Solved?
In looking through volume 14 of the Handbook of North American Indians, I ran across two photographs. The first shows Seminole Chief Billy Bowlegs wearing a similiar shoulder sash across his right shoulder (our left).
The second image I found is of a Creek finger-woven sash executed in very much the same style as the one we have. This sash was collected pre-1857.
The Seminoles were removed from Florida by the Federal government between 1838-1843 and relocated to Indian Territory. During the time of relocation, the Western Seminole separated into three settlements: the Apalachicolas and other "Friendly Seminoles" established themselves on the Little and Canadian rivers near the junction of the Creek nation; the main group of Seminole settled on the Deep Fork River in the Creek Nation; and a group who refused to merge with the Creek or live on Creek lands moved to the Cherokee Nation near Ft. Gibson.
The continued disagreement and hostility between the Seminoles and Creek ultimately lead to the creation of a separate Seminole territory located within the Creek nation and which also allowed a separate council, which would subsequently be subordinate to the Creek National Council.
cf. 2004 Sattler, Richard A. “Seminole in the West.” Handbook of North American
Indians 14: 450-464. Smithsonian Institute: Washington.
Now the next question -- what about the family's story? How does that fit in?
The second image I found is of a Creek finger-woven sash executed in very much the same style as the one we have. This sash was collected pre-1857.
The Seminoles were removed from Florida by the Federal government between 1838-1843 and relocated to Indian Territory. During the time of relocation, the Western Seminole separated into three settlements: the Apalachicolas and other "Friendly Seminoles" established themselves on the Little and Canadian rivers near the junction of the Creek nation; the main group of Seminole settled on the Deep Fork River in the Creek Nation; and a group who refused to merge with the Creek or live on Creek lands moved to the Cherokee Nation near Ft. Gibson.
The continued disagreement and hostility between the Seminoles and Creek ultimately lead to the creation of a separate Seminole territory located within the Creek nation and which also allowed a separate council, which would subsequently be subordinate to the Creek National Council.
cf. 2004 Sattler, Richard A. “Seminole in the West.” Handbook of North American
Indians 14: 450-464. Smithsonian Institute: Washington.
Now the next question -- what about the family's story? How does that fit in?
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