For November I decided to make one of our beautiful figureheads the artifact of the month. Choosing one was rather difficult as they are all wonderful in their own ways, but eventually I picked that of Galatea.
我发现，就像加拉茨一样，很多傀儡从神话中获得了名字。有两种神话与加拉特亚一起去，第一个说明她是一位美丽的海洋女神/若虫，谁爱上了一个名叫Akis的男人。Cyclops MoverPhemus爱上了Galatea和嫉妒年轻的Akis，粉碎了他在岩石下面。在她的悲伤中，加拉特雅将Akis变成了一条溪流。
当我继续梳理并拍照我们的印刷/海报集合时，我不断找到描绘令人难以置信的历史的碎片。在大多数情况下，我从未见过的比特存在，它会使我研究和了解更多。我本周早些时候发现的一个印刷展示了轮船Great Eastern（1858-1888）在广告中覆盖的沙地栏，包括船上的各种活动，包括赛马，一场音乐会和瑞士吉西群岛。看看，这是非常惊人的，所以我决定使它成为10月份这个月的伪影。
如果你仔细观察打印，你可以看到船上有大量的人，吨位更加试图船上。当我找到这样的东西时，我只需要了解更多并了解它背后的目的。
A couple posts ago I mentioned that we had a new boat coming. Well, it’s here and I decided to feature it as the object of the month for August. She is a Kenyan dhow named Lamu.
Lamu was brought to Washington DC for the 2014 Folklife Festival all the way from Lamu Island, Kenya. The above photo shows her in the National Mall in DC, the National Museum of Natural History behind her. She was brought by Ali Abdalla Skanda, whose father built her about 10 years ago. While at the festival, Skanda and an assistant, Aly Baba, worked on fixing her up and finishing the painting and woodcarving. Skanda recognizes that dhows are not used as they once were (with the development of motorized boats) and so dedicates himself to continuing the art of dhow building (passed from generation to generation in his family) and preserving his culture.
7月的月份的文物是一款印花展示展示了不同设计的Rawdon，Wright，Hatch和Edson，知名的银行笔记雕报器
该公司最初从弗雷曼·莱顿开始，他在1825年后的某个时候建立了它。1828年，他与尼萨克赖特合作，建立了纽约市的Rawdon，Wright＆Co.。在此之前，Freeman的哥哥Ralph Rawdon，曾形成Rawdon，Clark＆Co.的Asahel Clark。两位rawdon兄弟然后将其公司合并于1832年，以创建Rawdon，Wright，Hatch＆Company。1847年，Tracy Edson的姓名被添加，他们成为Rawdon，Wright，Hatch和Edson。
我们6月份的艺术品来自我们的国际小型工艺中心展览，是牛船，加利福尼亚州1939年。
公牛船(或有时野牛船)被任命为for the material that covers the framework. Traditionally women were the ones who built & used these boats for transport and communication between the villages on the Missouri River and its tributaries. A small paddle was then used to paddle in the direction desired, as shown in the photograph below.
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