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This series of seven photographs shows a traditional Algonquin method for constructing snowshoes. Wood, either yellow birch or ash, is bent and then strung with babiche--stretched moosehide. The lightweight apparatus then is varnished for protection…

According to the "Perry Knitting Company News," an recurring feature in the Perry Herald, this is Stanley "Steve" Slusarczyk, a foreman in the yarn mill. At the time of this photograph he had worked at the company 48 years (Perry Herald 31 Mar. 1955:…

Based upon an Aztec story, the Mexican coat of arms depicts a golden eagle perched upon a prickly pear cactus devouring a snake. The founding of Tenochtitlan, the island at Mexico City's center, had been prophesied to the Aztecs by traveling until…

Vivid design combines naturalistic and geometric elements: what may be taken as a six-petaled flower, perhaps a lily, also contains one or perhaps two six-pointed stars. Moreover, it's not clear whether this is a single flower with stamens, or…

Focus of drawing is a pair of mating birds on a tree branch, one with a spiky red flower in its beak--perhaps a type of paintbrush native to Mexico. In the remaining space we see a stream that traces its origins to the mountains, snow-capped using a…