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Pollyanna club badge
This badge would have been worn by members of the Pollyanna …
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Presidential campaign badge of Horatio Seymour
Images of individuals have always played an important role i…
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'Smiley' badge
The Smiley badge, showing a smiling face on a yellow backgro…
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$US1 note
In the mid-nineteenth century, individual banks in the Ameri…
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$US500 note
During the American Civil War (1861-65), the southern states…
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Jim Dine, Piranesi's 24 Colored Marks, an etching with watercolour
From early in his career Jim Dine (born 1935) has introduced…
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Jim Dine, The Die-Maker, a drawing in charcoal, heightened with white
In 1971 Jim Dine (born 1935) decided to return to America af…
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Lidded rivercane basket
This lidded basket is the earliest historic example of Chero…
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Map of buckskin
It may have been used in negotiations involving the cession …
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Red-maple spoon, made by Takosímáthlî, Old Tommy
This spoon would have been used for eating sofki , a soup or…
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Jules Feiffer, 2 button badges: We are all prisoners of war, and They lie
Protest movements, such as those against American involvemen…
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Marine Midland Bank credit card
Credit cards were first introduced in the United States in t…
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'Weed-holder' or vase, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) was a pioneering modern archi…
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Robert Riggs, Psychopathic Ward, lithograph
Born in Decatur, Illinois, Robert Riggs (1896–1970) studied …
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Abalone shell and glass necklace
The necklace is composed of fourteen plaques of abalone shel…
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Akan-style drum
It was probably brought from Africa to America on the middle…
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Birdstone of banded claystone
A birdstone was used as a weight in an atlatl , or throwing …
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Bob Haozous, Apache Necklace
This provocative necklace is by the artist and sculptor Bob …
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Caribou-antler club
The club has a fitted grip of skin, and is decorated with in…
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Chert knife lashed to a wooden handle
This knife was probably used by the Yurok of northern Califo…
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Clarence's Truck, by Clarence Lee
This ring is typical of the work of Clarence Lee: nostalgic …
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Coiled basketry bowl
The bowl is coiled from rush ( Juncus ), and sumac. Vessels …
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Coiled rush hat (sumulelu)
The hat is decorated with crosses, as well as traditional ge…
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Cradle
This cradle consists of a wooden board, a foot rest and a de…
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Dog-sled (uniek)
Sleds, pulled by teams of dogs, provide rapid transport thro…
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Dyed handspun wool textile, woven by Barbara Jean Teller Ornelas
The Navajo became sheep-herders after the Spanish arrived in…
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Elk-antler dagger
The dagger is made from polished elk antler, with the hilt w…
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Feather bonnet of Yellow Calf
The bonnet is constructed from the immature tail feathers of…
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Figure of a shaman's spirit helper
Shamans are believed to have the power to heal the sick and …
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Fish skin gauntlets
Fish skin – a durable and waterproof material - was widely u…
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Headdress of flicker feathers
The headdress is made with flicker feathers placed alternate…
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Hunting helmet
The helmet is made of painted bentwood, decorated with sea-l…
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Kamleika
Kamleikas are outer garments made of sea mammal gut, an extr…
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Leather belt
The belt has eight domed conchas (literally 'shells'), made …
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Painted wooden mask in the form of a wolf
Such clan headdresses are worn in ceremonial dances at 'potl…
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Pair of wood and skin ballsticks, made by Jo Sulphur
The Creek stickball game was played in the eighteenth and ni…
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North American otter pipe
The pipes may have been smoked for purification during ritua…
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Shaman's rattle in the form of an oystercatcher
The rattle is carved of wood, in the form of an oystercatche…
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Stone pipe in the form of a squatting figure
This unfinished pipe takes the form of a squatting figure wi…
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Stone plummet
In the Middle Woodland Period, the Deptford phase of the Gul…
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Tala-wipiki, Lightning katsina doll
Katsina are benevolent spirits, who live among the Hopi duri…
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Twined basketry woman's hat
This is perhaps the earliest example of the highest expressi…
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Two elk-antler and dentalium-shell purses
These two purses were perhaps the first of their type to be …
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Wooden eating bowl in the form of a seal
We can not be sure, but this bowl was probably collected on …
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Zoned pottery vessel
The Adena complex, in the middle and upper Ohio valley, is t…
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Diploma of the Yixing Gongsi, or Patriotic Rising Society
This secret society certificate is full of hidden symbols. T…
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Industrial Workers of the World badge
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was a trade union foun…
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Sandinista National Liberation Front badge
This painted wooden badge of the Frente Sandinista de la Lib…
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Silver 'Pine Tree' shilling of Massachusetts
The early European colonies in North America were always poo…
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Tin pattern for a silver dollar
This is a pattern coin (a design for a new coin) issued by t…
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£6 note
From the late seventeenth century, the British colonies in N…
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Cape jasmine (Gardenia florida), an engraving
Natural historians travelled on many of the voyages of explo…
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Jawbone of a mastodon
Many strange and wonderful fossils were brought back to Brit…
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Chromium-plated Normandie pitcher, designed by Peter Müller-Munk
This elegant jug was designed by the German-born designer Pe…
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Eliel Saarinen, a tea or coffee urn
This tea or coffee urn is widely held to be the greatest exa…
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit Vase, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Thomas Manderson
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was the son of the famous …
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Silver tankard made by Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Company was a leading New York silver and jeweller…
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C.R.W. Nevinson, Looking through Brooklyn Bridge, a drypoint
In 1919 Nevinson turned his back on the war art that had bro…
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David Milne, Boston Corners I, watercolour over chalk sketch
This scene, painted in the village of Boston Corners, New Yo…
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David Milne, Dreamland Tower, Coney Island, watercolour with body colour over black chalk on illustration board
This is a night view of Beacon tower, which stood at the cen…
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David Milne, Reflections, Glenmore Hotel, watercolour
This is a painting of the Glenmore Hotel, which was situated…
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Louis Lozowick, New York, lithograph
Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) was born in the Ukraine and emigr…
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Edward Hopper, Evening Wind, Etching
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) attended the New York School of Ar…
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Edward Hopper, Night on El Train, etching
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) attended the New York School of Ar…
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George Bellows, A Stag at Sharkey’s, lithograph
George Bellows (1882–1925) attended the New York School of A…
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George Bellows, Business Men’s Bath, lithograph
George Bellows (1882–1925) attended the New York School of A…
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John Sloan, Turning out the Light, etching
John Sloan (1871 – 1951) painter, printmaker and teacher, fi…
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Martin Lewis, Spring Night, Greenwich Village, drypoint
Martin Lewis (1880–1962) was born and raised in Castlemaine,…
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