Browse Items (3015 total)

This sterling silver mirror is surprisingly heavy to the touch yet a humble size of 9 ¼ inches long with the diameter being 4 ¾ inches across. It is over 100 years old and resembles an artifact that could be discovered as one of the remainders from…

Wooden mortars like this were made by Indigenous people by carving and hollowing out tree trunks. The flared form of this mortar relates to an example in the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian) with origins in Ulster County. In…

A third view of the Esopus Indian tinklers found in New Paltz, NY.

Another photo of Esopus Indian Tinkle Cones.

The tinklers, once bright and shiny, are now growing speckled with age; mottled with various mossy greens, ranging in shades of dark forest, to emerald, to sandy beige, they seem as much a part of the earth from which they were uncovered as the grass…

The pocket chess-board, when closed, looks like a small hard cover book made out of cloth material. When closed, you can feel the roughness of the object as if you’re touching the cuff of a fresh pair of jeans. There are small bubbles on the back…