I'm sure you could probably get together enough documentation to get into the DAR, but believe me, you would be bored... er, witless. The average age is about 82, and they are EXTREMELY conservative and socially-conscious. I think you might have more fun in some of the historical societies devoted to those eras or even re-enactors than you would with those stuffy bluehairs.
Yeah, the Woodlands (Great Lakes) and Western an NW Plains tribal beadwork has a lot of floral designs that are straight out of Jacobean crewel work. I bet you saw some Woodlands bandolier bags - square-ish, heavily beaded with floral work, long straps heavily beaded, and cool flappy-things and tassels along the bottom - like this - http://www.nebraskahistory.org/images/sites/mnh/bandolier_bags/w2.jpg Out there, you probably saw some of the Crow horse sets and rifle bags and such, too. Were there any women's dresses in the museum? (sorry, this is just really my favorite thing, I can't stop myself...)
I'll have to check if the Museum has a website - a lot of them have websites with images of almost all of their stuff online, sometimes a lot more stuff than they actually have on display.
BTW, I forgot to mention, I loved your description of the hunky cowboys. Take any interesting pictures of them? ^___~
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Date: 2011-05-28 08:34 pm (UTC)Yeah, the Woodlands (Great Lakes) and Western an NW Plains tribal beadwork has a lot of floral designs that are straight out of Jacobean crewel work. I bet you saw some Woodlands bandolier bags - square-ish, heavily beaded with floral work, long straps heavily beaded, and cool flappy-things and tassels along the bottom - like this - http://www.nebraskahistory.org/images/sites/mnh/bandolier_bags/w2.jpg Out there, you probably saw some of the Crow horse sets and rifle bags and such, too. Were there any women's dresses in the museum? (sorry, this is just really my favorite thing, I can't stop myself...)
I'll have to check if the Museum has a website - a lot of them have websites with images of almost all of their stuff online, sometimes a lot more stuff than they actually have on display.
BTW, I forgot to mention, I loved your description of the hunky cowboys. Take any interesting pictures of them? ^___~