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  • Showing a device used by American Indians for holding stones
  • Silphium perfoliatum L. Asteraceae Indian Cup. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that another species, S. compositum, was used by Native Americans to produce a chewing gum from the dried sap of the roots, and Native American medicinal uses for 'Indian Cup' are probably referrable to S. compositum and not S. perfoliatum. Silphium perfoliatum contains enzymes that inhibit trypsin and chymotrypsin which gives it resistance to fungal, bacterial and insect attacks. Male gall wasps (Antisotrophus rufus) alter the chemistry of the plant to enable them to locate females, making it a 'signpost' plant. The gall wasp lays its eggs in the stem of Silphium laciniatum, to provide food for the larva on emergence, and the galls containing a male or a female wasp will cause the plant to give off a different chemical odour. Emerging male wasps can search for female wasps, which emerge later, by locating this chemical fragrance which acts as a sex pheromone proxy (Tooker et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 26
  • Musical and other sound instruments of the South American Indians : a comparative ethnographical study / by Karl Gustav Izikowitz.
  • Musical and other sound instruments of the South American Indians : a comparative ethnographical study / by Karl Gustav Izikowitz.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Camp scene. American Indians. Sir W. Drummond Steward resting under a tree. Episode in the life of Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bt. of Grantully. Oil painting (Redskins).
  • Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians / by Geo. Catlin ; written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. In 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • Illustrations of the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians; in a series of letters and notes. Written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing / With three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings. By Geo. Catlin.
  • Bartelda - San Carlos Apaches
  • Chief Wolf Robe - Cheyenne
  • Chief Goes To War - Rosebud Sioux
  • White Face - Ogalalla Sioux
  • Tsimshian brass band, Metlakahtla
  • Unknown boy with injury to skull
  • 'Indian Rising 1862': Press cuttings, articles etc.
  • Carved totem pole
  • North American artefacts and places. Album of drawings and watercolours attributed to Thomas Bateman
  • Description of E.P. Evans' Hotel, Garden City, Minnesota and how it was used by women and children to shelter during the Great Sioux War
  • 'Indian Rising 1862': Press cuttings, articles etc.
  • Jewett's farm, where the family were massacred in 1865
  • Postcard showing Rev. Wm Duncan, Metlakahtla Church...
  • E.P. Evans' Hotel, Garden City, Minnesota, where women and children gathered each night during the Great Sioux War
  • North American artefacts and places. Album of drawings and watercolours attributed to Thomas Bateman
  • Boy whose parents were massacred at Garden City, 1865
  • Indian attack on New Ulm, Minnesota, August 1862
  • Native house with carved totem pole