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IMHM has an extensive collection of medical artifacts in storage. Due to space constraints, you won't be able to see these artifacts if you visit the museum, but we wanted to share a behind-the scenes look at some of our more interesting items.
IMHM has an extensive collection of medical artifacts in storage. Due to space constraints, you won't be able to see these artifacts if you visit the museum, but we wanted to share a behind-the scenes look at some of our more interesting items.
Metal artifact, cast iron stove pieces, discovered within Glacier National Park. If you find anything historic within the park, please leave it where it is, take a photo, mark the location (use GPS coordinates if possible) and tell a ranger or email the park with details about your find. The place and position of an artifact provide important information so please do not remove artifacts from their location.
Submerged artifacts, covered in concretions, wait to be shipped for preservation at Texas A&M University’s Conservation Research Laboratory. USACE photo by Jeremy S. Buddemeier
Inez May Storer (1933- ) is a San Francisco Bay Area painter and mixed-media artist who creates work in the 'magical realism' genre. Magical realism is a genre of art that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, expresses a primarily realistic view of the real world while also adding or revealing magical elements.
Storer's paintings are richly textured, mixed-media collages that often include a playful juxtaposition between contemporary cultural icons and historical objects or references. She creates
paintings in naive-sophisticated style, which she describes as Magic Realism: "I am a visual raconteur. I use paint to tell stories." Most of these stories are explorations of the human condition with characters who seem allegorically to be walking tightropes." She gets many ideas from her studio collection of old postcards, toys, photos and other random items that she often incorporates into her work.
Seen and photographed on display at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco in an exhibit entitled 'Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid.'
I was commissioned to make an art saddle in the spirit of "Artifact". Being given this artistic freedom (as well as knowing that this saddle is intended for display only) was fantastic and I took the opportunity to try out some ideas that have been floating on the periphery. I really wanted to created an aged look, the look of tiles that have chipped over time. It was challenging to create this look and try to not overwork the leather. I also wanted to experiment with draping the design over to the sides of the saddle. And I used some gold!
Do you think it works? Let me know!
We found buried treasure! Or a long-lost artifact of some kind. Finding this was a joy, and I'm not sure why it tickled me so much. But having an ancient relic from times long ago in our possession to prove our adventures felt so feral and archeological.
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Produced at Athens
Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter
Greek Early Classical period, ca. 480-470 BCE
No known archeological provenience
In the collection of, and photographed on display at, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), as part of the exhibit "Divina Archeologia. Mitologia e Storia della Commedia di Dante nelle collezioni del MANN" (6 December-2 May 2022)
Former J.P. Getty Museum collection
MANN Inv. 248779
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Guns,_Arizona
Two Guns is a ghost town in Coconino County, Arizona, United States.
Located on the east rim of Canyon Diablo approximately 30 mi (48 km) east of Flagstaff, Two Guns prospered as a tourist stop along Route 66.
Early history
Native artifacts found at Two Guns have been dated to between 1050 and 1600 AD.
As white settlers began to populate the area in the mid-19th century, Two Guns was recognized as an ideal place to cross Canyon Diablo, first by wagon, then later by vehicle.
Two Guns was the site of a mass murder of Apaches by their Navajo enemies in 1878. A group of Apaches had hid in a cave at Two Guns to avoid detection, but were discovered by the Navajos, who lit sagebrush fires at the cave's exit and shot any Apaches trying to escape. The fire asphyxiated 42 Apaches, after which they were stripped of their valuables. The murder site is referred to as the "death cave".
During the winter of 1879-80, Billy the Kid and his outlaw gang hid in the ruins of a stone house and corral on the west rim of Canyon Diablo, across from Two Guns.
In 1880, long before Two Guns was established as a settlement, the construction of the Santa Fe Railway was progressing across northern Arizona. At the location where the rail line crossed Canyon Diablo, about 3 mi (4.8 km) north of Two Guns, construction was delayed while a trestle was built. A settlement populated by male work crews was established near the construction site and was named Canyon Diablo, after the nearby canyon. The settlement "quickly became a wild and lawless place as drifters, gamblers, and outlaws made their way to town", Four men employed by the Hashknife Ranch robbed the train at Canyon Diablo in 1889, then fled on horseback with $100,000 in currency, 2,500 new silver dollars, $40,000 in gold coins, as well as silver watches, jewelry, and diamonds. A posse led by sheriff Buckey O'Neill pursued the bandits, but recovered less than $100 when the men were captured. Years later, after release from prison, one of the thieves disclosed that the stolen goods, along with their rifles, had been buried in the canyon rim near Two Guns. The location remains popular with treasure hunters.
The National Old Trails Highway (called the "Santa Fe Highway" in Arizona) was built in 1907 in Arizona, and loosely followed the railway, The highway crossed the dry river bed of Canyon Diablo at the Two Guns location, and zig-zagged up and down each embankment. In 1915, Canyon Diablo Bridge opened at the Two Guns crossing, and was used until 1938 when a new bridge was built nearby.
Settlement
The first settler at Two Guns was Ed Randolph, who built a store next to the death cave.
In 1922, Earle and Louise Cundiff purchased 320 acres (130 ha) of land from Randolph at this location for $1,000, and built a store, restaurant, and gasoline pumps.
Harry E. Miller leased a property from the Cundiffs in 1925 and began extensive construction. Calling himself "Chief Crazy Thunder", Miller wanted to capitalize on the beauty of Canyon Diablo and the flow of passing tourists. Along the canyon rim Miller erected a zoo with cages made of brick, mortar and chicken wire; his zoo animals included mountain lions, cougars, gila monsters, coral snakes, birds and a lynx. A restaurant and Indian gift shop were opened, and Miller cleaned out the death cave, selling any Apache skulls found inside as souvenirs.For a fee, visitors were led on a tour which began at a Hopi house Miller had built, where rolls of colored piki bread was made and sold. They then followed a paved path down the side of the canyon to a soft drink stand at the bottom. Next was a tour of the death cave, where Miller had installed electric lights, and fake ruins of cliff dwellers. Flamboyant signs were placed along the highway, and Miller named his establishment "Fort Two Guns" as an homage to silent movie actor William S. "Two Guns" Hart, with whom Miller claimed to have previously worked.
The Cundiffs applied for a post office under the name "Two Guns" in 1924, but it was refused. The post office was renamed "Canyon Lodge".
In 1925, "Rimmy" Jim Giddings opened a gas station and cafe at Two Guns called Rimmy Jim's. Another location burned down in 1969.
In 1926, the highway designation was changed to U.S. Route 66. That same year, Cundiff and Miller had a disagreement about the details of their lease, and Miller shot the unarmed Cundiff to death. He was later acquitted of the killing.
The interior of Miller's store burned in 1929, and soon after, Louise Cundiff built her own tourist store. The following year, Miller left the state. Cundiff remarried, and in 1934 opened the Two Guns Texaco service station along a new alignment of Route 66. Behind it they relocated the zoo (which closed prior to 1950).
In 1938, a new bridge across Canyon Diablo was built, and Route 66 began following Interstate 40 at the Two Guns location.
A more modern service station was built at Two Guns in 1963, and in the late 1960s a motel, western tavern, reptile exhibit, and new zoo were added. Later, a Shell service station was built and a KOA campground opened.
Decline
The service station burned in 1971, and Two Guns began to decline.
The ruins of many former structures remain, including the trading post, campground, old cottages, zoo, and burned-out service station.
In 1988, Canyon Diablo Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
Submerged artifacts, covered in concretions, wait to be shipped for preservation at Texas A&M University’s Conservation Research Laboratory. USACE photo by Jeremy S. Buddemeier
Playing on Lilia's thoughts about blogging artifacts (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathemagenic/127481396/)
Agalmatolite is a relatively soft stone. Many of these carved objects were found at the Anapji pond including this hollowed out incense burner.
...now with crop circles. I like the idea of an alien artifact - something modern or futuristic in design but ancient, flawed and scratched as if dug up from an archeological site.
Underglaze adhering to fired ^10 in the bisque for a 3rd firing DOES work.
A collection of over 5,000 objects from the Titanic, including these gloves, will be auctioned by Guernsey's Auction House, 100 years after the ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg. The collection, comprising all items that were recovered from the deep since the wreck was discovered in 1985, is sold as one lot.
Article: bit.ly/titanic-auction
"Cultural artifact or artefact is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology, and sociology for anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users."
Kond, the old district of Yerevan. Armenia, 2006
Maritime archaeologist Cathy Green documents artifacts at the Two Brothers shipwreck site at French Frigate Shoals.
Photo: NOAA/Tane Casserley
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An artifact of moving - all kinds of old crazy stuff gets dredged up to the top. Suddenly I have space for my old Atari 2600 to be hooked up to the big screen TV!
Time for some old school gaming!
IMHM has an extensive collection of medical artifacts in storage. Due to space constraints, you won't be able to see these artifacts if you visit the museum, but we wanted to share a behind-the scenes look at some of our more interesting items.
Special Exhibit: Tibet, Henan Provincial Museum, Zhengzhou. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Kangling Thigh Bone Trumpet, Rkang-gling. Photo 2 of 4.
Genuine tantric Buddhist ritual instrument known as a kangling (or Rkang-gling) used by practitioners of Chöd.
Made from a human femur, this kangling or thigh bone trumpet from Tibet has silver covering the epicondyle end which serves as the sounding end of the horn.
From Tibet.
Material, bone & From Tibet.
Material, bone & Kutch silver with 2 turquoise stones inserts.
Age 20th Century.
Treasures private collection.
About:
Made of the human thigh bone, the 'spirit evoking' trumpet known as the Kangling. A ritual object of Tantric Buddhism, and used at the time of tantric ceremony. Used in the Chod ritual 'Cutting off of Ego', and various dubthab rites. The Chod ritual appears to have its source during the shamanistic Bon period of Tibet, in the animistic cults relating to sacrifice and exorcism.
Played with the LEFT hand, and sounded in conjunction with the double-sided hourglass shaped drum made from a pair of human crania the Damaru. Because of their special qualities, they tend to be used in rituals concerned with wrathful deities or in contexts requiring special musical expedients. Used to drive away evil spirits, and used by 'naldjorpas'(adepts of the Short Path), to 'summon' spirits. Often used in conjunction with a Phurba (ritual dagger) for weather control in the summoning and cessation of rain.
Some people mistakenly believe that Tibetan Buddhism is a macabre religion with ghoulish deities and a strange obsession with bones, blood and gore. This is a complete misunderstanding of the symbolism involved in the tantric rituals. The fact is that there is an emphasis on each of our own impending deaths, but this is not a morbid fixation, but rather an impetus to make the most of life while we have the opportunity. The belief is that since death is inevitable, one should be mindful of the important things in life - cultivating kindness and compassion for all sentient beings, and practicing virtue and meditation - techniques to discipline the mind and elevate consciousness.
Many people have an aversion to bones and blood and such because, when it comes down to it, this makes them think of their own mortality, and they don't want to think about that for a second. So among worldly people there is a certain degree of repulsion for such things. On the other hand, the tantric Buddhist approach is to view them, contemplate them, even handle them and use them - its all about using the symbols of death as a means for understanding what life is really about. Utilizing death to come to terms with life is "skillful means" - a very important concept in Buddhism as many of you are no doubt very aware.
Tibetan Lamaic Buddhists made both short trumpets and hour-glass drums out of human bones. The drums, damaru, were composed of two skull caps; the thigh-bone trumpet or flute - the rkang gling - is perhaps the best known and is considered extremely tuneful. The thigh bone of a murdered virgin was said to be most efficacious in summoning spirits. Short bone trumpets have also been found in Buddhist monasteries in Mongolia.
Such bone instruments reached Tibet from India in the 8th or 9th century, where they served to remind the living of both the dead and death itself. The practice is thought to have originated with the Kaplikas, a Hindu sect from the 2nd century BCE. Elsewhere, human bone rasps, Omitzicahuastli have been discovered at Aztec sites, and in Hawaii there are drums, pahu, which use human teeth. The Omitzicahuastli can be heard on the album Sacred Rites by Elisabeth Waldo, which attempts to recreate the sounds of early Meso-American cultures. Many instruments used by the Aztecs took animal and human form, incorporating parts of the animals they were supposed to represent as well as clay, shells, reed, stone, copper, gold and bronze.
Kanglings are a ritual instrument often used in Tibetan ceremonies, especially those surrounding fierce and protective deities such as the Dharmapala. Although these deities do exist in the Indian tradition, where they are guardians of temples to the gods Shiva and Vishnu, the term is most often used for eight major and several minor guardians of Tantric Buddhism as practiced in the Himalayan countries and regions.
Dharmapalas can usually be recognized by various attributes they are depicted as wearing or carrying. Among these, one finds clothing made of tiger-, elephant- or human skin, bone or skull-made anklets, garlands, necklaces or girdles; as well as the crown of five skulls. Hand-held implements include the skull cup and double skull drum as well the flaying knife and many more.
Info. Internet
Sunrise from the parking garage where I work in Vancouver ("The Couv"!) Washington. The digital artifacts from my camera's lens blended well with the more concrete artifacts of technology in the shot.
The Pittock Mansion was home to Portland pioneers Henry and Georgiana Pittock from 1914 to 1919. During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, their lives and work paralleled the growth of Portland from a small Northwest town site to a thriving city with a quarter million population. With its eclectic architectural design and richly decorated interior, including family artifacts, the Pittock Mansion stands today as a living memorial of this family’s contributions to the blossoming of Portland and its people.
English-born Henry Lewis Pittock journeyed on a wagon train from Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1853 where, at the young age of 19, and in his own words, “barefoot and penniless,” he began working for Thomas Jefferson Dryer’s Weekly Oregonian newspaper. In 1860, at the age of 26, he married 15-year-old Georgiana Martin Burton of Missouri. Six years prior, Georgiana had crossed the plains from Keokuk, Iowa to Oregon Territory with her parents. Georgiana’s father E.M. Burton was a flour mill owner and one of early Portland’s well known building contractors.
Together, Henry and Georgiana began a long life of work, community service, and devotion to family, which would last 58 years and celebrate six children and eighteen grandchildren.
A consummate businessman, Henry Pittock took ownership of the Weekly Oregonian in 1860, changing its format to the daily paper we read today. He went on to build an empire incorporating real estate, banking, railroads, steamboats, sheep ranching, silver mining, and the pulp and paper industry.
Georgiana dedicated herself to improving the lives of the community’s women and children. She helped found the Ladies Relief Society in 1867, whose Children’s Home provided care, food, and shelter for needy children. Georgiana also worked with the Woman’s Union, and played a key role in building the Martha Washington Home for single, working women.
The couple was known for their quiet reserve, helpful demeanor, and love for the outdoors. Georgiana cherished gardening, and kept a terraced flower garden at the mansion covered with every kind of flower imaginable. She frequently adorned her house with cut flowers, and is recognized for originating the tradition of Portland’s annual Rose Festival.
A vigorous outdoorsman, Henry rode horses in the Rose Festival parades, and was a member of the first party to climb Mt. Hood, one of the spectacular peaks visible from the mansion. On one of his climbing expeditions, someone suggested that the group sit down and rest, at which point Henry responded, “The man who sits down never reaches the top.”
Henry and Georgiana were at the pinnacle of their successful lives when they commissioned architect Edward Foulkes to design and build their new home overlooking Portland, the city they loved.
They began planning and designing their new home in 1909. The mansion was completed in 1914, replete with stunningly progressive features including a central vacuum system, intercoms, and indirect lighting. The house also creatively incorporated Turkish, English, and French designs. In keeping with their loyalty to their home state, the Pittocks hired Oregon craftsmen and artisans, and used Northwest materials to build the house. The final estate included the mansion, a three-car garage, a greenhouse, and the Italianate gate lodge servants’ residence, all situated on 46 acres of land almost 1,000 feet above downtown Portland.
At 80 and 68 respectively, Henry and Georgiana moved to their new home. The hard-working couple who had lived in the heart of Portland as it developed from a forest clearing to a bustling business center, now resided high in the hills, with a breathtaking vista of their beloved Portland. It was a warm and gracious house for both the adults and children of the family.
Georgiana died in 1918 at the age of 72, and Henry in 1919 at 84. The Pittock family remained in residence at the mansion until 1958, when Peter Gantenbein, a Pittock grandson who had been born in the house, put the estate on the market.
The threat of demolition at the hands of land developers, and the extensive damage caused by a storm in 1962, brought concerned citizens together to raise funds to preserve the site. Seeing this popular support, and agreeing that the house had tremendous value as a unique historic resource, the City of Portland purchased the estate in 1964 for $225,000. Fifteen months were spent restoring it. The mansion opened to the public in 1965, and has been a community landmark ever since.
A house of historical significance and visual magnificence, the Pittock Mansion today offers us a uniquely personal opportunity to peek into the past, and study our world as it was - from the viewpoint of one Portland family
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