Piece of History
The Bedroom of Jane Phillips
Anyone who gets the opportunity to tour the upstairs of the Lodge is always amazed by Jane’s bedroom….wall to wall pictures of some of the special guests who frequented their Lodge home. If a guest was in Jane’s “favor”, she would request a portrait and up it went on the bedroom wall. Notable guests on the wall include President Harry Truman, Elliot Roosevelt (son of President Roosevelt), Will Rogers, Jimmy Doolittle, Rudy Vallee and Herbert Hoover are just a few. Just as intriguing, if a guest happened to fall “out of favor” with Jane, your picture was summarily removed from her wall and placed in a hidden location.
Fully Beaded Moccasins | The confinement of reservation life provided Sioux women with adequate time
The confinement of reservation life provided Sioux women with adequate time to produce elaborately beaded and quill decorated items. Sioux art of the early reservation period is characterized by the tendency of the artist to completely cover many items such as small handbags, suitcases, picture frames, and bottles, even in cases where use of the article would be made impractical.
Beaded sole moccasins have been incorrectly called "burial moccasins" because of their fragile nature. That they were actually worn by the living is shown in photographs and demonstrated by the fact that some surviving examples exhibit wear and soiling from use. Most were made by the Teton Sioux and Assiniboin on the Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Ft. Belknap reservations.
Moccasins with decorated soles were made for a fairly brief period of time, from the early 1880's until about 1910, when they went out of style.