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Type: Photographs
Date: 1890
Image ID: RU 31 Box 12 Folder 17
Description: Wilson A. Bentley first became fascinated with snow during his childhood on a Vermont farm, and he experimented for years with ways to view individual snowflakes in order to study their crystalline structure. He eventually attached a camera to his microscope, and in 1885 he successfully photographed the flakes. This photomicrograph and more than five thousand others supported the belief that no two snowflakes are alike, leading scientists to study his work and publish it in numerous scientific articles and magazines. In 1903 Bentley sent prints of his snowflakes to the Smithsonian, hoping they might be of interest to Secretary Samuel P. Langley.
Persistent URL:Link to data base record
Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives
Shinnecock Reservation: L.I., NY: Labour Day Powwow, September 2006.
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Shinnecock Tribe
Rte 27-A, Montauk Hwy
Southhampton, NY 111968
631-283-6143
State recognized; (no BIA office liason - seriously ridiculous!)
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Shinnecock Indian Nation: An Ancient History and Culture.
Since the beginning, Shinnecock time has been measured in moons and seasons, and the daily lives of our people revolved around the land and the waters surrounding it. Our earliest history was oral, passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and as far back as our collective memory can reach, we are an Algonquin people who have forever lived along the shores of Eastern Long Island.
Scientists say we came here on caribou hunts when the land was covered with ice. But our creation story says we were born here; that we are the human children of the goddess who descended from the sky. It was she, the story goes, who caused the land to form beneath her feet from the back of Great Turtle, deer to spring forth from her fingertips; bear to roar into awakening, wolf to prowl on the first hunt. It was she who filled the sky with birds, made the land to blossom and the ponds and bays to fill with fish and mollusks. And when all was done, the Shinnecock, the People of the Shore, appeared in this lush terrain. We are still here.
As coastal dwellers, we continue to prize the bounty of the sea, the shellfish, the scaly fish, which for thousands of years provided the bulk of our diet. We were whalers, challenging the mighty Atlantic from our dugout canoes long before the arrival of the big ships, long before the whaling industry flourished in the 19th century.
In the 1700's, we became noted among the northeastern coastal tribes for our fine beads made from the Northern quahog clam and whelk shells. The Dutch, who arrived on our shores before the English, turned our beads (wampum) into the money system for the colonies.
The Shinnecock Nation is among the oldest self-governing tribes of Indians in the United States and has been a state-recognized tribe for over 200 years. In 1978, we applied for Federal Recognition, and in 2003, we were placed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' "Ready for Active" list.
Traditionally, decisions concerning the welfare of the tribe were made by consensus of adult male members. Seeking to shortcut the consensus process in order to more easily facilitate the acquisition of Indian lands, the Town of Southampton devised a three member trustee system for the Shinnecock people. This system of tribal government was approved by the New York State legislature in February of 1792. Since April 3, 1792, Shinnecock Indians have gone to the Southampton Town Hall the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April to elect three tribal members to serve a one- year term as Trustees. In April of 2007, the Shinnecock Indian Nation exercised its sovereign right as an ancient Indian Nation and returned to one of its basic Traditions: it bypassed the Southampton Town Hall and for the first time since 1792 held its leadership elections at home, where they will remain.
The Trustee system, however, did not then and does not now circumvent the consensus process, which still remains the governing process of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Major decisions concerning the tribe are voted yea or nay by all eligible adult members, including women, who gained the right to vote in the mid-1990s. Also in that period, the Shinnecock Nation installed a Tribal Council, a 13 member body elected for two years terms. The Council is an advisory body to the Board of Trustees.
Today, we number over 1300 people, more than 600 of whom reside on the reservation adjacent to the Town of Southampton on the East End of Long Island. While our ancestral lands have dwindled over the centuries from a territory stretching at least from what is known today as the Town of Easthampton and westward to the eastern border of the Town of Brookhaven, we still hold on to approximately 1200 acres.
With modest resources, we have managed to build a community to help us better meet the demands of an ever expanding and intrusive world. In addition to the Shinnecock Presbyterian church building and its Manse, our infrastructure includes a tribal community center, a shellfish hatchery, a health and dental center, a family preservation and Indian education center, a museum, and playgrounds for our children. Also on our list of recent achievements is the design and development of an official Shinnecock Indian Nation flag and an official seal.
Our skilled craftspeople and fine artists find employment within the Tribe as well as the surrounding area. The number of tribal members holding advanced degrees in law, business, medicine, social sciences and liberal arts continues to grow, and tribal members hold positions of responsibility in all areas, including teaching, banking and counseling, both within and outside the Shinnecock community.
One of the earliest forms of economic development that the Shinnecock Nation undertook was to lease Reservation acreage to local area farmers for their crops, mainly potatoes and corn. While the project did bring in a small income for the Tribe, the resulting damages from pesticides leaking into the ground water and polluting our drinking water supply were enormous. We had great expectations for our shellfish hatchery (Oyster Project) but brown tide and general pollution forced it to close before it had the chance to develop into the business enterprise it was planned to be. In the summer of 2005, the Tribe began reseeding parts of its waterways with oysters, and celebrated a renewal harvest of Shinnecock chunkoo oysters at the Tribal Thanksgiving Dinner, November 2006.
At the present moment, the Shinnecock annual Powwow is the economic development project of record for the Shinnecock Nation. Revived in 1946 as a benefit for our church, the Powwow has evolved into an event that hosts thousands of visitors. But we are at the mercy of the weather. For the past two years, rainstorms have forced us to drastically revise our budgeting plans. We are now exploring Indian Gaming as a means of attaining the much needed self-sufficiency that will enable us to perform the sacred duties laid out for us by the Ancestors — to protect, manage and maintain the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
By Bevy Deer Jensen
Shinnecock Nation Communications Officer
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For more information on the Shinnecock Nation, please visit: www.shinnecocknation.com/
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photography: a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2006.
The Study
Today the room is empty – but I can easily imagine a desk, some chairs and a lot of books in this room…
Just a few minutes cutting some edges of a page to my Filofax with my February Final Exams Dates... and the study table at my friends apartment
Good Evening,
I have included 6 photos of my time at the University of Exeter, as well as
my travels throughout Europe during my semester abroad.
Thanks,
Mary Virginia Kizer Ball
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JULY 18, 2018 - BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA: Old books on wooden table at Boston Public Library with blurred background. The Boston Public Library was the first free municipal library in the nation.
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I'm back home from my trip to Boston, and now I am diving into studying for my upcoming Master's Comprehensive Exam. It's in two weeks, and sums up all that I've been working on for the past three years. If I pass, then I'll graduate in May!
On a rainy chilly (read: beautiful!) day like this, what can make studying better more than freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and a tall glass of cold milk? :)
MoMA's Lily Auchincloss Study Center for Architecture and Design on the upper level and The Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Painting and Sculpture Study Center on the lower level but when I took this photo it was more like the Trish Mayo Light and Reflection Study Center
So as some of you know I am working on the next series The Book of Judges
It will be an epic sized 40-60 panel series encompassing all of the most overlooked book in the Bible. It's violent, heart-breaking and utterly compelling and I'm going to throw the next year at it. It'll push me past anything I've done in the past in terms of scale, complexity, technique and the shear number of people that need to be involved.
A few months ago I received a grant to do it. They said it was their favorite in 3000 to come in that year. It was a huge honor. It was the first I ever wrote, but unfortunately it was a matching grant...and there was no money to match it with. I couldn't accept it.
The director came out to see me personally in October suggesting ways to raise the money so that they could give us the grant. He said that if they could not fund the project, they would consider their year a failure...
We were thinking of every avenue possible, but just days before Christmas he called a special meeting of their board of directors just for this project. They voted for the first time in their history, and against their bylaws, to waive the matching status and to just give us the funds to do the project.
it's a humbling honor and now it's time to deliver.
This is Ehud, the second Judge (deliverer) of his people in a time where there was no king and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.
small oilgraph on panel
iPhone Photo: At Falkland Palace, home of James V and his daughter, Mary I, Queen of Scots. Not great quality because of the angle towards the light, but you weren't allowed any further into the room - it was roped off at the door - and this is the longest my arm could reach and still take a straight-ish photo with ye olde iphone 3g :)
I love old-style study/libraries. The word "study" these days tends to just mean a desk and a computer, with maybe a few files/books/texts around. But here there are ceiling-high shelves of leatherbound books in a wonderful array of colours, and the room has a desk, chair and a comfy sofa covered in cushions and a fireplace that I imagine on a cold, windy Scottish winter evening would be the best thing about this cosy room. Lovely flickering golden light to read by as well.
And then of course, there's the secret door in the bookshelf - what decent castle is without one?? Unfortunately, as I said, visitors weren't allowed into the room itself, so the room on the other side remains undiscovered to all but the imagination.
A study for the "metaphysical milano" project that started with "moodisometric".
I like the tones here, but the positions of windows don't have a suitable rhythm.
Oh, and I also like the small curly things that hold the gutter-pipe.
My friend Amanda taking advantage of the nice summer weather outside our St. Catz dorm. Taken during study abroad at Cambridge, UK.
This is where I like my skirts, not to low but not over my belly button.
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Pattern review on Monday!