Artwork of Karl Bodmer at the Joslyn Museum

 Karl Bodmer was a Swiss artisgt and print maker.  He traveled with Prince Maximilian up the Missouri River in 1832-1834.  Karl Bodmer was the artist and made sketches and paintings of Native Americans and the landscape.  They can only display so many of the paintings but there are over 400 on line at the museum website.

Fox River near New Harmony

Bullboats and figures

Bullboats and figures

Women of the Mandan White Buffalo Cow Society 

Hidatsa Village

Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in Front of their Medicine Lodge

Prince Charles zu Wied, Prince Maximillian zu Weid and his brother Charles

Native American Art at Joslyn Museum, Omaha

Much of the Joslyn Art Museum is devoted to Native Americans 

Navajo Blankets

Eanger Irving Couse, Hunter in the Aspens

Oscar Howe, Sioux Boat Race

Dorothy Torivio, Haa'ku (Acoma Pueblo)

Jacqueline Lauren Stevens, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

Lucy M Lewis, Haa'ku (Acoma Pueblo)

Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo

Miguel Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo, eagle

Macaw

Ancestor artist, Haa'ku (Acoma Pueblo)

Stephen Mopope, Ka'igwu (Kiowa), Eagle Dance, 

Stephen Mopope, War Dance

Ancestor artist, Haida, mask

Ancestor Artist, Acheti Sakowin (Sioux) painted buffalo robe

Newell Convers Wyeth

Alfred Jacob Miller, bull boating across the Platte

John T. Bowen, Opothle Yoholo, Creek Chief

John T. Bowen, Yoholo-Micco, Creek Chief

South Omaha Mural Project

I found the South Omaha Mural Project after visiting the Irish mural which had a blurp about sponsorship.  I have really b een enjoying tracking them all down.  As of today there are 18 in total.  

Ancestral Voices  Native American: 25th and N

Song Bird, Granary Mural: Off of F on D and 28th 

Zajedmica Croatian Mural : 36th and W

Mayan Mosaic: 25th and N

Aztec Mural: 24th and N

Threads of Life: Mayan Mural. 25th and N

Sláinte: Irish Mural

Quetzal Mural. 24th and N

Mexican American Mural. Del Futuro al Pasado: 25th and N

Nebraska Odyssey: Sesquicentennial Mural. 36th and Q, Nuestra Familia Supermarket

Tree of Life on South 24th Street in South Omaha

 The Tree of Life is on the Main Street of South Omaha and now South 24th Street in Omaha.  It is at 24th and L.  It is a welcome to South Omaha with its unique heritage.  The tree "balls" symbolize four local ethnic groups, Czech, Polish, Croatian and Mexican.

Mayan Mosaic from the South Omaha Mural Project

 This statue is located by the South Omaha Parking 24th and N, by the Mexican American mural.  The statue has a quetzal, a Mayan pyramid, corn stalks and hieroglyphs.

2026 Saint Cecilia Cathedral Flower Exhibition

 Despite the cold we ventured to the flower show this past Saturday.  There were plenty of flowers to see with the theme of the honey bee.  There was also violin music.  We listened to a group of yout play violin music.  They were very good.  They played with violins on their heads and then with the bow set and rubbing the biolin against the bow.  They also did some controlled dancing as they played.  

The Hive in the center of the cathedral