We also visited the National Museum of the American Indian, a relatively new Smithsonian museum that I had visited after it first opened. I remember not liking it much then, and still am not enamored with it, although some of the displays are interesting.
I saw this Native American basket (I forget which tribe made it) in a souvenir shop and enquired about it. The clerk said it was a horse, which I couldn’t figure out because it was sitting on its long end and looked like some kind of trophy. When he showed it to me, in the proper position, it became clear what he was talking about. I really liked it, but with a price tag of $3,500 (!) it was simply out of the question. He sadly put it back in the display, right side up.
Sapp Bros. Coffee Pot Water Tower, Omaha, Nebraska, posted earlier:
