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TITLE	Relics from Forrest Collection
CREATOR	Forrest, Earle R. (Earle Robert), 1883-1969
SUBJECT	Relics.
Browse Topic	Arts and architecture
DESCRIPTION	[Forrest:] East Wall, South End in Den. Top Sword under Tomahawk was found in attic of David Bradford House, South Main St., Washington, Pa. It may have belonged to Bradford. The Large Tomahawk beside the sword was found on the site of Chief Captain Pipes village on Tymochtse Creek where Col. Wm. Crawford was burned at eh stake by Indians in June 1782. The other sword is British. I bought it at a second hand store in Quebec City, Canada in 1949. The first horn at eh right is a fox horn found in attic of David Bradford House. Nothing more known of it. To the left of the Fox horn is a Water Buffalo horn, made for blowing, picked up in a swamp near Manila, Philippine Islands, by Pap. (?) Homer Farabee, Co. H., 10 the Pa. Vol. Inf. in 1898. He put a tag on it and mailed it to me. On the stand is an old wicker covered bottle. This was also found in the attic of David Bradford House. The tin box at the front of the stand is very old. It may have been for tobacco or snuff. Herbert Pook gave it to me when they moved to California in 1900. He said it was old in the family then. The marble topped stand came from my mother after she died in 1939. It dates back to the 1850s at least, and probably came from Grandmother Forrest or Grandmother Collins, my mothers mother. The marble topped stand in the old den was given to me after my aunt, Alice Forrest Boyle, died. She had had it ever since she was married in the 1850s. The lamp on this table was the first electric table lamp Margaret and I had. The shade has pencil marks on it made by Peggy when she was a little girl. Just above the lamp is a framed collection of Navajo Indian silverwork that I collected at Billy Meadows Trading Post, on the San Juan River, New Mexico, in 1902 and later in AZ, before 1908. The Sioux Dance Moccasins on the wall just under the lamp, I got in Denver, CO in 1902. The Hopi Kachina Plaque on the wall I got in 1907 at Mishongnovi Pueblo, AZ. The small leather beaded knife case I got from a Ute squaw at Navajo Springs, Southern Ute Res., Colorado, in 1902. The two water bottles on the wall were made by the Navajos. I got them both in 1902 at Billy Meadows Trading Post. See No. 5388 for full history. The two Navajo silver necklaces hanging on the water bottles are from New Mexico, that on left from Santa Fe, and that on the right from Gallup. The two tomahawks are genuine. That at the right is from some southern tribe nad has the original handle. That on the left is a peace pipe tomahawk, very old and from Penna. The handle is not original. The Powder horn I got at a second hand store in 1948 at Quebec city, Canada. It is a very fine piece. The Red Peace Pipe at the left is genuine, Sioux. The stem is not original. The Navajo Pillow top I got at Grand Canyon, AZ, in 1926. The figure is a horned toad. The Big Red Navajo blanket on the couch I got at Billy Meadow's Trading Post in 1902. It was my first Navajo Blanket. See 5277 + 5278 for full description. Description provided by photographer.
TYPE	Image
Material Collection	MS-143: Earle Forrest collection
Acquisition Note	Collection was bequeathed to the Museum of Northern Arizona from the Earle Forrest estate in 1969
RIGHTS MANAGEMENT	To inquire about permissions and order reproductions, please contact the Museum of Northern Arizona: library@mna.mus.az.us
DATE ORIGINAL	1951-01-28
Time Period	1950s (1950-1959)
ORIGINAL FORMAT	Nitrate negative
Source Identifier	MS-143-1.1-1-5617
DIGITAL IDENTIFIER	MS-143-1.1-1-5617.jpg
Date Digital	2010
DIGITAL FORMAT	JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
DIGITIZATION SPECIFICATIONS	A photographic negative was scanned on an Epson Perfection V750 PRO scanner at 600 dpi in 16-bit grayscale.
REPOSITORY	Museum of Northern Arizona
Sort Order	36800