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So we left off with the Buffalo Bill Cody exhibit last time.
Back out into the common area was a Kentucky Flintlock .45 Rifle.
My 7 x Great Grandfather, Robert Baker, and his brothers were the developers of the predecessors of this muzzle loading long rifle that was the stock and trade in the frontier of America from the time of the American Revolution onward.
They were awarded a patent from King William to produce these firearms outside of Philadelphia and once the Revolution happened they turned to producing weapons for the rebelling colonists. I am related to these folks through my maternal Great Grandmother, Lucy Baker.
Plains Indians were a nomadic peoples, following the food supply to hunt.
A buffalo headdress fir ceremonial and spiritual occasions. Only elite males of the tribe wore these.
Some examples of weaving and an early photo of a native family wearing hand woven garments.
A decorative spear.
More Native decorative arts.....
Native children removed from their homes and sent away to schools to become "civilized"......
We all know these many years later how this story ends.....so depressing.
Other than buying a couple of pencils we didn't bring anything else home as it was like the Archway place in Nebraska and way overpriced.
After spending most of the day at this museum we hit the road heading East again.
The next installment when I get around to it. ;-)
Sluggy
Those were very interesting artifacts.
ReplyDeleteI love the wide open plains. Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteJre here, I’m in Minnesota near the ND SD border. Love the plains. Wonderful museum I would like to see. Well I’m 16 days out from my TKR and lived to tell the tale! But the first week was awful. Once the nerve block wore off wow, but at two weeks out I’m starting to feel human again. Walking way better, PT is going and I’m doing my home exercises, I don’t want to have gone through this with poor results. My biggest area of pain is outer thigh/hamstring with muscle spasms at times. They gave me some Flexaril to try and it did nothing (then I remembered years ago I’d tried it for back issues and then it did nothing and I’m very med sensitive). I’ve been off my big pain meds for about a week as they make me icky so glad I’m now comfortable on Tylenol although nights are still uncomfortable. Sluggy I hope you are doing much better and hope your coccyx area improves. It sounds miserable. I had my right knee done and my big accomplishment is I drove myself to PT and Dr and McD for my Diet Coke the past two days! I live alone and was going stir crazy. A little sore but it went well! Tomorrow Walmart!!! Big times in my small town! I hobbled to daughter’s Thursday ( grandkid drove me) as she did thanksgiving for her in-laws and stayed a bit and on Saturday my kids/grandkids put on our turkey day with all the trimmings, did all the work/cleanup and then hauled in bins of Christmas decorations and put up and decorated my two main trees and my mantel/stockings (I have 21!) so being laid up did have a little bit of benefits. I’m now watching the Bochelli Christmas special, beautiful music and hopefully moving into the Christmas spirit. I might even try starting some Christmas baking tomorrow. Or not, ouch ha!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update! So glad the worst is over, and I'm glad you are healing well from the surgery. That's great that the family helped to decorate for Christmas. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas
DeleteJre thank you! Day by day. Sluggy your coccyx pain sounds miserable but just humbly wondering have you tried chiropractors? And yes I know you have less padding and sitting more on the “bone”. For a back history I had a gastric bypass about 12 years ago and lost 100 #. Way less “padding” and remembering that type of issue that then was attributed more to sciatica…… (not to say yours is) but chiropractor and my saving grace -warming ultrasound to my sore areas has saved me. Like I said I drug myself there a week out of my TKR because of my horrific hip pain that rivaled my horrible knee surgery pain. Thank god it’s mostly a blur now. I just wish you well.
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