Beltrami
Three Warclubs : The Ball-Headed, Gunstock, and Sword Clubs in the Beltrami Collection
ball-headed club, Beltrami, Caffi Museum, Chiefs’ gun, Dakota, gunstock club, North West gun, Ojibwe, sword club, war clubBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – War clubs were the preferred fighting weapon because Native American warriors could increase their social status by killing their enemies in single combat. In Mississippian art, they were often depicted in conjunction with images and symbols of war. One type of club, now called a sword club, appears to have originated…
The Flight of the Owl: the Wabeno, the Windigo, the Wendigokan, the Morning Star, and Mexican Echoes in Anishinabe Culture
Anishinabe culture, Beltrami, drums, Mexican cultures, Morning Star, Owl, Wabeno, Wendigokan, WindigoBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – This article starts from a cue provided by some Algonquian etymologies, starting from the Proto Algonquian term *wi-nteko-wa, through a series of cognates in the various Algonquian languages. These words develop four meanings: that of windigo, a cannibal spirit or a human who becomes a cannibal, that of owl, that of specter,…
Beltrami’s cradles: Not One, but Three. Notes on some items in the Beltrami’s Collections
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – In 2021 I wrote Beltrami’s Cradleboard and Other Stories. Beltrami’s is the Oldest Preserved Dakota Cradleboard in the World, an updated version of the article La culla di Beltrami e altre storie, published in Italian in 1993.The examples of cradles of the Eastern Sioux in the literature made me believe that the two…
Beltrami’s Cradleboard and Other Stories. Beltrami’s is the Oldest Preserved Dakota Cradleboard in the World
Beltrami, Bergamo, cradleboard, Dakota, Filottrano, Fort Snelling, Glauco Luchetti, Museo E. Caffi, Santee Mdewakanton, Santee SiouxBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – This is an updated version of the article “La culla di Beltrami e altre storie”, published in Italian in 1991. The Beltrami Collection, made up of the objects he brought back from his travels, has been divided for a long time: a part was kept at the Museum of Natural History…