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RiG! Kitchen Set Oak (4 Piece) (Boxed) - Consists of 1 Kitchen Shelves (7Li) 1 Food Prep Table (6Li) 1 Butcher's Block (2Li) and 1 Tall Cupboard (1Li) all permissions are: COPY, MOD, NO TRANS
Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Northdal/39/64/1104
Museo Nacional de Antropología
The Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA, or National Museum of Anthropology) is a national museum of Mexico. It is the most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Calle Mahatma Gandhi within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from the pre-Columbian heritage of Mexico, such as the Piedra del Sol (the "Stone of the Sun" or Aztec calendar stone) and the 16th-century Aztec statue of Xochipilli.
Got a chance to see the exhibit of Buddhist Temple artifacts curated by George and Willa Tanabe at JCCH
An extremely versatile Business Office sign in the mix at this wonderful architectural salvage store on Ravenswood.
Photographs from a Melrose High School Italian class field trip to the Pompeii exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science.
December 2011
This ring has been found in 2525 among some other coins with unknown origin. It was burried under a former town probably in the middle of the 21th century.
Some presume that it was made by somebody because of a nostalgy for the earlier years. Others say that the artist was only attracted to the metal's shiny look and neither himself did not know what was the coin for originally. It depicts a man with four hands and four legs, certainly some god or other divinity. The stars around him just confirm this theory.
According to some publications the artist made these to trade them for meat with hunter communities. However it is very unlikely because in the middle of the 21th century trade did not return yet, especially not for other than meat or vegetables.
From the site of Frijão (See Silva, A estação arqueológica da Idade do Ferro do Frijão (Braga, Norte de Portugal), p. 79, fig. 48, n. 1).
Dated to the Portuguese Early Iron Age, ca. 6th/4th to 2nd c. BCE
On display in the Museu Regional de Arqueologia "D. Diogo de Sousa" (Official website; Braga Digital; Braga Romana; pt.wikipedia; en.wikipedia)
Braga, Portugal (Ancient Bracara Augusta: Pleiades; PECS - Perseus; en.wikipedia)
a rare prunus vase with hand carved dragon and turquoise paints
pinterest exquisite chinese porcelain/
Ziqi Zhang Photography All Rights Reserved 2014
At Huacaloma, an early site in Cajamarca, Peru, there were many pieces of broken ceramics (sherds) on the ground. Here are four sherds that I picked up in just a few minutes.
I left them at the site.
South Lyon, MI 2010
A couple weeks ago I got my New Topographics catalog back from it's trip to Arizona. I had sent it out to my good friend Jim and asked him if he wouldn't mind taking it to the opening of the New Topographics reconsidered show at CCP and get it signed by William Jenkins and Frank Gohlke. Mission accomplished (thanks so much Jim). He said that once people realized that he had an original catalog it was like walking into a guitar convention with a '59 Stratocastor slung over your shoulder. Even Jenkins remarked that his copy had a coffee stain on it. At this time I also want to give a hearty and humble thank you to my long time friend David Griffith. Twenty five plus years ago he came across an opportunity to purchase two copies of this catalog for $35. He then gave me one of them (the one pictured), because he knew how much we both admired and were influenced by the work in that show. A true friend.
So this catalog represents much more than a signpost to a new concept of literal descriptive photography. It has been that for me, but as an artifact it also has come to symbolize my personal relationship to the photographic life.
Thanks my friends.
Aviation Museum
Langley, BC Canada
Beechcraft 3NMT Expeditor
Serial CA180/A782, CF-CKT, RCAF 2307, Manufactured 1952.
Two 450hp P&W R-985-AN-3 or B5 nine-cylinder radial engines. Maximum speed 225mph
Empty Weight 5,785 lbs; Loaded Weight 9,000 lbs
Span 47ft 7in. Length 33ft Wing Area 349 sq. ft.
The Canadian Museum of Flight is an aviation museum at the Langley Regional Airport in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
The museum has over 25 civilian and military jets, piston driven engine aircraft, gliders, and helicopters on display, six of which have been restored to flying condition. Other displays include an aviation art gallery and aviation artifacts.
The Museum and restoration site is open year round, and houses over 25 aircraft both static and flying. The aircraft range from a WWII Handley Page Hampden to a T-33 Silver Star. The Canadian Museum of Flight possesses the only displayed Handley Page Hampden in the world.
Along with the aircraft and displays, the Museum has an extensive aviation gift shop with everything from posters to books, hats, t-shirts, toys, videos and much more.
More information about the Museum:
www.canadianflight.org/content/about-us
Image best viewed in Large screen.
Thank-you for your visit!
I really appreciate it!
Sonja
In the photo above, Sacred Heart Catholic Church salvaged the 11 piece marble crucifixion scene behind the altar from Saint Liborius Catholic Church in Saint Louis. The hanging interior light fixtures and bells from exterior tower were also salvaged from same church for use in this church. Eureka, Missouri.
This week St. Louis landscape lost Saint Bridget of Erin Catholic Church to demolition. It has been reported that some artifacts will be salvaged like stained glass windows and tower bells. See photos in comments below.
These artifacts are in Cades Cove which was a settlement several hundred years ago. It is now part of the National Park.
More beautiful "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" original movie props...
Some of the treasure stolen from the Temple as it collapsed!
Photo believed to have been taken by Victor Hand at Shrewsbury before the overall roof was dismantled.
CIA’s Office of Research and Development developed a camera small and light enough to be carried by a pigeon. It would be released, and on its return home the bird would fly over a target. Being a common species, its role as an intelligence collection platform was concealed in the activities of thousands of other birds. Pigeon imagery was taken within hundreds of feet of the target so it was much more detailed than other collection platforms.
For more information on CIA history and this artifact please visit www.cia.gov
Just some points from my last dig....It's interesting to me to think that last person that held these or made these was several thousands of years ago.
Little mate giving a not-so-subtle hint. Wish I could say this is the only "treasure" I took back to the car with me this morning. (After it was done being inspected, of course!)
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Artifacts Trio - 10.10.2024 - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg
www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos24/artifacts-trio/Index.htm
Besetzung:
Nicole Mitchell: flute;
Tomeka Reid: cello;
Mike Reed: drums;
The label accompanying this trophy at the Westport Maritime Museum says:
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Unearthed at Old Fort Chehalis, Westport, Washington.
Top loading wood stove.
This pencil sketch gives a pretty good idea of how this stove looked in 1860 at Old Fort Chehalis. Evidence from the recovered top tells that it turned sideways to put in more wood and that there was no end door. The top exhibited here was exhumed from the sand dunes at the Old Fort site and must have been buried for more than 100 years. It was badly rusted and no other parts were recovered.
Fort Chehalis was established to protect the citizens from Indian attacks. During the Fort's existence, not a single shot was fired at the hostile Indians.
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There are several topics to comment on here.
The first is the way this object is displayed. The other is the so-called "hostile Indians" referred to on the label
Currently, the stove lid is not just an artifact. The fancy carpentry on the frame and the gold paint convert the old stove lid into a piece of local-historical-society kitsch. The finders were thrilled about their discovery, which was obviously a prize, and they wanted a display equal to the excitement of that special moment when they first spied a piece of rusty metal at the site of the Old Fort.
As for the paint, it too is part of the kitsch. Black would have been more authentic but less special. However, the designs do stand out more against gold than black.
In the end, it's better off like this than if it were still sitting in its oxidized state at the back of a lower shelf of a dimly lighted display case.
The other topic is Old Fort Chehalis and the "hostile" Indians mentioned on the stove lid's label.
Here's one version of the story, found on a non-objective memorial marker:
"This tablet was placed by Robert Gray Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution June 1929 to mark the site of Fort Chehalis which was established in 1860 for the protection of white settlers."
This is all very John Wayne.
Now, for the real story. The Thumbnail History of Westport provides some context:
Chehalis Tribal peoples initially populated the area now known as Westport. The Chehalis ate fish as a diet staple, and constructed longhouses with one end open to the water for easy salmon collection.
When non-Indians started arriving, diseases such as smallpox and malaria spread. But it wasn't until 1853 -- and the landed settlement of the new arrivals -- that disease truly devastated the Chehalis Tribe. A smallpox outbreak originating from a boat in Neah Bay was referred to as the Big Sick. Thousands of Chehalis died, and the village was all but abandoned.
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The new arrivals made themselves at home while the remaining Chehalis found themselves pushed out. In 1855 on behalf of the United States government, Isaac Stevens (1818-1862) asked the Quinault, Queets, Cowlitz, Shoalwater, and Chehalis tribes to cede rights to their land and settle onto a reservation. The "offer" contained a serious caveat that the reservation wasn't guaranteed location on their native land. The Chehalis refused, and were labeled a "non-treaty" tribe, meaning that non-Indian settlers continued claiming Chehalis land, and the Indians received no compensation from the government. The Chehalis were eventually granted a parcel of land in the southeastern corner of what is now Grays Harbor County.
www.historylink.org/File/10723
www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XVA_fort-cheha...
Next, let's see what a real history book says about the relations between settlers and Native Americans at Gray's Harbor:
"ln 1860 the army arrived at Westport in the form of Captain Maurice Maloney, Mrs. Maloney, and 60 troopers from Fort Steilacoom."
"Ostensibly they came to Point Chehalis to protect settlers from local natives, although tribal resistance to white encroachment actually had ended four years earlier in western Wash-ington and two years earlier east of the moun-tains."
"Some speculated that the 'danger' was concocted by Captain Thomas Wright, owner of a steamboat, who wanted to enhance his business. Wright brought the Chehalis River its first stern-whee ler in 1859, the 115-foot, open- hulled Enterprise."
"The previous year he had plied it to great advantage on British Columbia 's Fraser River during the gold rush there. On the Chehalis River, however, he hit snags and shoals and, before the first season was out, tied the vesse l to a tree and went out on foot to Olympia."
"Few actual functions were performed at Fort Chehalis (at the sandy point just ins ide today's Westport harbor ) other than Captain Maloney's attempts to enforce laws against selling liquor to native people."
"In June 1861 troops were ordered East to fight in the Civil War, and the fort fell silent . Settlers bought most of the buildings and moved them to various sites around the harbor."
Source: Exploring Washington's Past: A Road Guide to History. Carmela Alexander and Ruth Kirk. University of Washington Press; 2 edition (December 1, 1995)
books.google.com/books?id=BNAYPXb22sYC&pg=PA461&l...
In conclusion, the Westport Maritime Museum would do its visitors and the surviving Chehalis people a service by removing the reference to "hostile Indians" or posting a label explaining that resistance to White encroachment had ended by the time the fort was established, and that the label on the stove-lid display reflects the ignorant and racist attitudes towards Native Americans at the time the display and the original label were created.
The wood chisels have leather sheaths that slide into the canvas slots. These chisels are still VERY sharp and look as if they have never been used.
Really neat!
"Air Raid" siren located near the intersection of Camden Avenue and Bose Lane in San Jose, California.
Located adjacent to San Jose Fire Department Station 22, this is just a block or so away from Simonds Elementary School, which I attended from second through sixth grades. I remember this siren being tested periodically. In those Cold War years, the sound was always chilling.
I have no idea whether this siren is still operable. It certainly hasn't had a coat of paint in many years.