Single-unit votive slip in three sections, each with own black border. Top half contains image of old woman being handed a container. Bottom half divided in two small single units. Left has black ren mark agains white above white text against black background. Right has image of votive panel with a shell and black text.
This piece is comprised of a blue and pink checkerboard background. Three nautilus shapes line up vertically in the right half of the picture plane. The top one is a white silhouette. The middle one attempts realistic rendering. The bottom one encloses a black and red variation of the checkerboard pattern used in the background., Ocean Floor; Duane Cox; State Capitol, http://www.dartmouth.org/classes/61/Duane%20and%20DeVona%20Cox.htm, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
A black square's edges are defined by a collection of teapots and other vessels, except the left-hand edge, which is occupied by a seashell. A silver baton rests atop a vessel on the bottom right., Big Square; Watercolor; 1989; 17 x 17 inches, http://pnca.edu/programs/bfa/faculty.php, http://www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=248, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A black-and-white photograph of a white seashell, directionally lit from the right-hand side, thus creating a heavy shadow on the left-hand side., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may visit their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
A Native American woman wearing traditional clothing, including earrings and a headscarf, sits on a horse. The horse is draped with blankets and outfitted with a bridle, reins, and stirrups.
State Seashell (Oregon Hairy Triton) is one in a series of seventeen bronze medallions that depict icons of the state of Oregon. The "Oregon Hairy Triton" (Fusitriton oregonesis) was declared the state seashell in1989 by the Sixty-fifth Legislative Assembly of Oregon. This mollusk member of the Gastropod Class (snails, slugs, welks, abalones) grows to about 5 inches long. It is a light brown and covered with gray-brown bristles, hence the name "hairy." The shell is basically an elongate cone wound around an axis. In 1848, a conchologist named Redfield named the Fusitriton oregonensis after the Oregon Territory. The shell is the only one that shares the name of a state, and is one of only three in the world named after a location. The shells are found from Alaska to California and wash up on the Oregon coast at high tide., State Library; #19; Desk; D.L. Cunningham, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
A corner area of an interior room is covered with a net, from which is strung an assortment of Native American artifacts and decorations. There are baskets in many shapes and sizes; bags, woven and beaded; necklaces of beads or shells; antlers; some beadwork and leatherwork; woven mats and wall hangings; bow and arrows; two quivers with fringe; a pistol; a rope; drums; a miniature of a canoe decorated with a floral design; some portraits, one drawn in charcoal and several photographs; a carved wooden spoon; and other assorted objects. The interior of the room that is visible is wallpaper on the ceiling and upper wall area, a bench with cusions, and some ornate picture frames to the left and right of the display of goods.
A Native American baby, identified as Parson Motanic's child, sleeps in a cradleboard. The cradleboard is ornamented with shells and wrapped in two fabrics, one of which is embroidered with a floral motif.
A Native American woman, dressed in Native American costume, is seated on a chair, in front of a wall filled with various Native American artifacts. The woman is wearing a headdress with horns and feathers, a beaded buckskin dress with beaded fringe, beaded leggings, and floral design moccasins. She has long braids, a beaded choker and beaded necklace, a shell necklace, copper bracelets, a ring, and is holding a beaded bag. A Pendleton blanket is draped over the chair. Hanging from the wall are assorted feathers and knives, decorative cords with tassels, posters, a photograph, swords with scabbards, floral design cradleboards, a horse bridle with reins, woven bags, a beaded floral design glove or gauntlet, leather goods, beadwork, a walking stick, and a tanned animal hide on which is painted a Native American man. There are several items on the floor, including another blanket, a bow and two empty quivers (one beaded, one plain), a tomahawk decorated with a fur tail, more loose feathers, and a woven basket.