RAINBOWS & RESEARCH

“The rainbow is a timeless departure point for the imagination.” Colour Research, 1972-1973 by Morris/Trasov Also : In 1969 Trasov founded Image Bank with Michael Morris, a method for personal exchange of information amongst artists. (post forthcoming!) in the meantime check the Morris/Trasov archives & for more Colour Research check this weird site discovered via [...]

SOX & POMO

Soft, Cozy, Warm—basketry socks from the Artic! And their California-made mates, feathery Pomo basket bowls. The name Pomo derives from a conflation of the Pomo words [pʰoːmoː] and [pʰoʔmaʔ]. It originally meant “those who live at red earth hole” … (not hip abbr. for Post Modernism) via Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at [...]

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Artist Unknown, Artist, 1976 via California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections – OAC via WEIRD FRIENDS

INDIVIDUALS.

(some) Individuals photographed by H.W. Henshaw, 1893. 1. Lewis James; 30 September 1924 2-4. Individuals photographed by H.W. Henshaw, 1893. 5. Woman, Tallac near Lake Tahoe 15 October 1900 via C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs, ca. 1890-1938 care of OAC

VESSELS

of the woven basket variety. I appreciate them for their usefulness & personalities. via the enormous collection of vessels from all mediums at Smithsonian

N.A. INDIANS.

Phenomenal photographs of North American Indians presented by the Denver Post. In 1906, American photographer Edward S. Curtis was offered $75,000 to document North American Indians. The benefactor, J.P Morgan, was to receive 25 sets of the completed series of 20 volumes with 1,500 photographs entitled The North American Indian. Curtis set out to photograph [...]

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