We’ve been looking for a way to engage more of our visitors in personal ways while they’re fast away from their vacation destination. We came up with a new FACEBOOK GROUP called Friends of the Frisco Native American Museum and it’s administrator is a volunteer that is an incredibly passionate individual.
We’ve got Tuesday Tidbits for sharing cool stuff going on, Wildlife Wednesdays for critters you find in nature, and we’re going to be developing discussions as the group grows! Everyone is welcome!
One Example We Shared
is an elaboration on the image we’re currently using for our FB museum page. The group admin suggested we elaborated and we shared this information
We’ve got this piece as the current cover photo of the museum and it’s one we get a lot of questions about it. These are a set of colorized prints from the Detroit Photographic Company that are copyright 1903. From the left to the right they are labeled: 54056 Obtossaway, Chief of the Ojibwa 54061 Arrowmaker, an Ojibwa Brave 54059 Chief Paupuk Keewis, Iroquois adopted by the Ojibwa
Obtossaway and Paupuk Keewis were taken by William Henry Jackson while Arrowmaker was taken by C.Muller.The Detroit Photographic Company started back in 1898 to feature a process called photolithography which was where ink-based images are produced through the direct photographic transfer of an original black and white photographic negative onto multiple litho and chromographic printing plates. Each plate printed a different color onto the final image resulting in a color image that looked remarkably lifelike. The trade name for this process was called Photochrom and it was William Henry Jackson who was well known in the company for taking not only his work, but the work of other photographers, and creating these impressive color prints that could be sold as inexpensive postcards.
The practice of photolithography is still used today in a variety of ways like transferring images to clay and creating electronics (I’ll add L I N K S in the comments)The whole of the piece is surrounded by cigar stickers. In a very simple relation, natives used tobacco, cigars are made of tobacco, and they thought the stickers from their travels complimented the prints.