FALL 2019 NEWSLETTER & CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MORE THAN A CENTURY OF ART, PG 2 NEW ACQUISITIONS, PG 14 CALENDAR OF EVENTS, PG 19 FROM THE DIRECTOR

History, Art, and Culture he Tennessee State Museum is often considered a history museum, but a look T inside of our collection shows emphasis in art and culture as well. It has long collected and exhibited art together with artifacts, focusing on both individual pieces significant to the history of the state, and artists that have called the state home while pushing the form forward. Decorative arts can also often tell us as much about the periods in which they were created as material culture.

In this issue, we focus on Tennessee art and artists during a time of rapid growth in both art influence and style — after the turn of the 19th century. Senior curator of art and architecture, Jim Hoobler, is your guide through notable paintings, sculpture and furniture from the Museum’s collection, much of it on display now.

Elsewhere in the magazine, we highlight important new acquisitions that further inform our understanding of Tennessee history, like a sign denoting segregation on Nashville streetcars during the early 1900s. In our collection highlight, we delve deeper into state prehistory, by examining remarkably preserved Native American artifacts from the Woodland period.

This season also marks one year since we opened our doors at our new location. Our By-The-Numbers section takes a fun look at how much we’ve grown, and who we’ve served, both in the building and throughout the state.

The holidays are upon us. Be sure to check our Calendar of Events and plan a visit with us this holiday season.

Ashley Howell, Executive Director Tennessee State Museum

DIRECTOR’S COLUMN TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 Ancestral Fish, by Jairo E. Prado, 1997-98, wood carving

MORE THAN A CCENTURYelebrating OF TENNESSEE

he arts have been a part of life in Tennessee since the state’s beginnings. By the early 20th Tcentury, many people experienced art as a part of their daily lives. Most homes were filled with decorative arts such as textiles, furniture, ceramics, silver and glass.

The incorporation of sophisticated design into mass-produced items expanded opportunities to participate in national aesthetic movements. Tennesseans also appreciated fine arts like sculpture, drawing and painting. Tennessee artists achieved national and international renown in many creative areas. The Tennessee State Museum currently displays the works of these artists throughout its galleries and in the temporary exhibition In Search of the New: Art in Tennessee After 1900.

Gilbert Gaul and Ella Hergesheimer were Michael McBride, Rediscovery, academically trained painters from the eastern 1993, oil on canvas United States. They relocated to Tennessee and had careers here in the early 1900s. Gaul was a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. He maintained a studio in Van Buren County.

1 Anton Weiss, Light Field, 1997, acrylic on canvas

William Edmondson, Eleanor Roosevelt, c. 1940, limestone sculpture

Gilbert Gaul, Cold Comfort On The Bonnie Mae Bell Williams, Toddler Girl’s Dress, 2003, Outpost, c. 1880-1900, oil on canvas cotton & polyester blend with white applique

Hergesheimer was a descendant at the Museum of Modern Art in Crow’s sculpture, Spearfinger, is of Revolutionary War-era artist New York. The Tennessee State currently on display. He was a and museum curator Charles Museum currently has four of Cherokee and Hitchiti artist who Willson Peale, with generations Edmondson’s works on display: often drew inspiration from oral of artists in her lineage. Both Lion, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pulpit histories. Bonnie Mae Bell Williams succeeded professionally in and Rabbit. African American made traditional Choctaw Tennessee. Gaul specialized Tennessee artists such as clothing, and Minnie Bell, an in military paintings with Civil Gregory Ridley, Michael McBride elder of the Mississippi Band of War themes and landscapes, (whose work Rediscovery is on Choctaw Indians community, and Hergesheimer focused on display), Alonzo Davis and this produced traditional baskets. portraits, landscapes, still lifes and newsletter’s cover artist, David prints. Visitors can view Gaul’s Driskell, produced paintings and New immigrants to America Cold Comfort on the Outpost and sculptures with a broad appeal. brought their own artistic Hergesheimer’s Still Life with Fruit Beauford and Joseph Delaney, traditions to Tennessee. Fritzi and Flowers on display in the brothers from Knoxville, both had Brod left her homeland in Museum. careers in painting in New York Czechoslovakia to escape from before Beauford moved to work the Nazis. Her colorful painting William Edmondson of Nashville in Paris. Beauford’s Self-Portrait Near Gatlinburg has become was a self-taught sculptor whose hangs in the Museum’s Time one of the Museum’s most work reached international Tunnel. iconic images. Jairo Prado, who audiences in the 1930s, when he emigrated from Colombia, made became the first African American Native American artists continued his intricate sculpture Ancestral artist to have a one-person show to create art in Tennessee. Tis Mal Fish while living in Tennessee.

2 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 Ella Sophoisba Hergesheimer, Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, c. 1930, oil on canvas

Richard Jolley, Spiraling Fritzi Brod, Near Gatlinburg, Thoughts, 1996, glass c. 1944, oil on panel

Rudolph Ingerle moved from DeMay. Glass artist Michael the collapsing Habsburg Empire Taylor instructed Richard Jolley, Sylvia Hyman, The Great Eggscape, and discovered the beauty of whose stunning work Spiraling 2000, Trompe l’oeil clay Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains to Thoughts is on display. Jolley and inspire his paintings. Pale Moon, Tommie Rush then taught art Nutt, whose okra-inspired Tri-Pod in the Museum’s collection, is a glass techniques to Calvin Nicely Table is part of the museum’s wonderful example of his work. and Tadashi Torii, among many exhibition Let’s Eat! Origins and Anton Weiss emigrated from others. Born in Osaka, Japan, Evolutions of Tennessee Food, and Yugoslavia and built a successful Torii called Knoxville home for Wendy Maruyama, whose work painting career here in the state. several years. His Flight of Fancy is The Writing Table is a highlight All of these artists are featured an extraordinary example of his of In Search of the New: Art in in the Museum’s temporary work. Tennessee After 1900. exhibit In Search of the New: Art in Tennessee After 1900. Creating fine furniture is also For more information about an enduring artistic tradition. the Tennessee State Museum’s Many Tennessee artists shared Curtis Buchanan is one of the temporary exhibition In Search their crafts and traditions with the finest Windsor chair makers in of the New: Art in Tennessee After next generation. In some cases, America. Today, he’s training 1900, visit tnmuseum.org. both teachers and students are new generations to craft represented in the Museum’s furniture using traditional styles collection. Trompe l’oeil master and techniques. James Horne

Sylvia Hyman taught generations adapts older forms into modern Jim Hoobler Senior Curator of Art of ceramic artists, such as Susan interpretations, as does Craig and Architecture

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THE ROLE OF TENNESSEE IN KEN BURNS' COUNTRY MUSIC

There are dozens of key players in Ken Nashville Sound. Sarah Colley was focus on the growth of country Burns’ sprawling eight-episode,16- born in Centerville, Tennessee, turned music in Tennessee. The section on hour documentary, Country Music. into Minnie Pearl and claimed she the Bristol Sessions includes a panel Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, was from a fictitious town named about the historical significance of Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris Grinder’s Switch, Tennessee. She was the events, right next to a display of a and Johnny Cash are just a few of a star of the Grand Ole Opry for 50 bow tie belonging to Jimmie Rodgers. the individuals whose stories and years. Many artists, like Ernest Tubb, The gallery also includes a sequined influences are weaved throughout the came to Tennessee to make it in the coat worn by Parton that dates to entire program. But there’s another business and stayed. Others, like Willie 1980 along with her 1970 Epiphone player with a unique story that shows Nelson, had moderate success before 12-string guitar. Our Tennessee up in every episode as well: the State finding his career was better suited Transforms gallery includes a Lucy of Tennessee. going back to Texas. Still others, like Adams outfit worn by Parton while Patsy Cline, who died in a plane crash performing on her Dolly TV show From Ralph Peer’s recording sessions in Camden, Tennessee, lost their lives during its 1976-77 season, displayed in Bristol, Tennessee, introducing The here and will always be a part of the with her 1965 Kingston banjo. Cash, Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers to state’s history. whose career provides a narrative the world; to the Grand Ole Opry and thread through many of the episodes WSM Radio in Nashville; and those At the Tennessee State Museum, an of the documentary, is also featured first records produced by Sam Phillips official location on the Tennessee with outfits in both our State of Sound at Sun Studios in Memphis, Burns’ Music Pathways trail (see sidebar), and Tennessee Transforms galleries. film continually returns to Tennessee artifacts connected to the state’s role Additionally, in a connection to Sun to document the innovations to in music, in all genres, are a significant Records, where Cash started his the industry and the setting for part of the collection. Ken Burns’ film career in the 1950s, The State of Sound its stars. Dolly Parton was born in offers a timely opportunity to dig features a Presto Vinyl Disc Cutter, Sevier County and made a name into the collection and make those Type 6N, like the model Phillips used for herself here, before becoming connections. to cut records on Presley and others. one of the biggest entertainers in the world. Chet Atkins was born in Several cases in the Museum’s Among the artists and institutions Lutrell, Tennessee, and became a temporary exhibition, The State of mentioned in episode two of the guitar virtuoso and architect of the Sound: Tennessee’s Music Heritage, documentary are DeFord Bailey, Uncle

4 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 Dave Macon, Roy Acuff and The Grand Loved it Away,” written by George Richey record store became famous for Tubb’s Ole Opry. All are represented in one case and Carmol Taylor and produced by Billy Midnight Jamboree radio show, beginning in the Museum’s Time Tunnel. Included Sherrill. The song peaked at No. 8 on the in 1948, where Tubb used his celebrity is a Grand Ole Opry ticket from 1936, Billboard Country Charts and included the status to help many performers break into during the time it called the Hillsboro bittersweet lyrics, “All my friends told me, the music business, and later showcased Theatre, now the Belcourt Theatre, home we’d never make it / That love to you was new artists like Loretta Lynn and the from 1934-36. There is also a Hohner just a game you played / And I’ll admit at Wilburn Brothers. It was his way to pay International Bluesband harmonica in the times we had rough goin’ / But in each forward the kindness shown to him by the key of C owned and played by Bailey. Born other’s arms, we loved it away.” The couple widow of his idol, Jimmie Rodgers. in Smith County, Bailey was a harmonica divorced a year later in 1975. virtuoso and the first black featured The State of Sound: Tennessee’s Music performer on the Opry. He was inducted One of our visitors’ favorite artifacts is Heritage, runs through February 2, 2020. posthumously into the Country Music connected to Tubb – a neon and metal Displays in our permanent exhibitions, Hall of Fame in 2005. Acuff, born in 1903 Ernest Tubb Record Shop sign that including Tennessee Transforms and the in Maynardville, Tennessee, was the first appears in a photograph used in the Tennessee Time Tunnel, will run indefinitely. living inductee Burns documentary. It was Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns, into the Country installed when Tubb opened premiered on PBS stations in September Music Hall of his Nashville record store in and is available on PBS.org, other video Fame in 1962. Our 1947 and was used until it streaming sites and on DVD. display includes a was replaced about 1960. The Pulsar Watch worn by Acuff along with Opry star Macon’s recording of the novelty song, “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy.” Macon, who hailed from Smartt Station, Tennessee, is also featured in The State of Sound, with one of his shirts and ties on display.

George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s careers, and their tumultuous relationship with each other, figures prominently in Burns’ film after they’re introduced in the sixth episode. In our collection is a copy of In partnership with Nashville Public Radio and Nashville Public Television, the Museum hosted a preview screening of Country Music. Pictured, left to right, are panelists Jason Moon Wilkins, Nashville Public Radio; the sheet music for their 1974 duet, “We Ann Powers, NPR music critic; and Kathy Mattea, songwriter and artist. Photo: Susan Adcock.

Tennessee Music Pathways Trail The Tennessee State Museum has been officially designated as a stop on the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development’s statewide Tennessee Music Pathways trail. The designation, marked with a sign near the Museum’s Rosa L. Parks entrance at its Nashville location and an entry on the Music Pathways website, recognizes the Museum’s significance in identifying, explaining and preserving the legacy of music in Tennessee. Music Pathways locations connect visitors to the people, places and genres significant to music history. Pictured is Tennessee State Museum Executive Director Ashley Howell (left) and Tennessee Department of Tourist Development Commissioner Mark Ezell with the new Music Pathways sign installed outside the Museum.

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spit over a fire, which added to their ease in adopting the Southeastern Indians’ device for cooking pork. Tasting the The final ingredient necessary for southern pork barbecue was contributed by Africans. The Atlantic slave trade tore millions of Africans from their homelands and forced them to labor in the Americas. They were accustomed to a HISTORY OF savory cosmopolitan cuisine in Africa that favored spicy, hot, and tart. With limited resources they strove to reproduce these flavors, thus inspiring many of the tastes that we associate with southern cooking BARBECUE today. This included barbecue. Africans also possessed their own traditions of PORK BARBECUE ILLUSTRATES pork, which is most often associated cooking meat with indirect heat on top of how three different food traditions— with modern barbecue. In 1539, Spanish pits filled with hot coals. Southeastern Indian, West African, and explorer Hernando de Soto embarked West European— came together in on an expedition of what would become So with this context established, America to create one of the South’s the Southeastern United States and the workshop began by giving each most celebrated dishes. But how did introduced pigs to the continent. The participant a plate of barbecued pork and barbecue taste 80, 150, and 300 years animals thrived, and by the time of De three cups for making dipping sauces ago? This was the question the Museum Soto’s death near the Mississippi River in based on historic sources. The first sauce sought to answer when it hosted, in 1542, he owned around 700. Europeans they made was very simple. In 1698, partnership with the Nashville Farmers' had a long tradition of roasting pigs on a a Dominican missionary named Père Market, a barbecue tasting workshop earlier this fall. Part historic re-creation and part experiment, participants made three sauces that reflected three different periods of barbecue history. This exercise produced some interesting revelations about a very familiar food.

First, how did pork barbecue become a southern staple? During the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, explorers observed Southeastern Indians cooking meat on slotted wooden platforms that sat high above a heat source. This so fascinated Europeans that sketches of the devices made it back across the Atlantic and were reproduced as engravings in widely distributed pamphlets. The word “barbecue” likely derived from the Southeastern Indian word for this cooking device.

Southeastern Indians cooked all types of This engraving depicts the Timucua Indians of northern Florida using a device to dry meat and fish, 1590. wild game using this method, but it was Engraving by Theodor de Bry. Based on a Jacques le Moyne de Morgues painting. The Florida Center for Europeans that provided the protein, Instructional Technology, University of South Florida

6 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 The final tally. Favorites are marked on the top row; Workshop participants making barbecue sauces based on historic sources. least favorites at the bottom.

Labat visited the French West Indies We omitted the butter in the workshop This ranked as the least favorite. and witnessed cooks using lime juice and let participants experiment with The addition of horseradish in this and hot peppers to season barbecued the ingredient measurements. This recipe made it taste more like cocktail meat. This sauce probably had its roots sauce was a clear winner. The addition sauce than barbecue sauce to our in Africa where cooks traditionally of mustard to this sauce reminded some participants. It seemed a strange used both lemon and lime juice. In of classic Carolina barbecue sauce. They pairing with pork and had them asking the workshop we experimented by found it to be similar to many sauces for shrimp. This exercise suggested that providing random participants cups found commercially except it tasted the savory and sweet tomato-based of each type. They could use as much so much fresher. Clearly vinegar-based sauces that we are so familiar with cayenne pepper as they wished. sauces have a long history in the South. today had to evolve over time.

Those who had the lime juice loved the Finally, we concocted a tomato-based The workshop proved to be a fun and tastes that this sauce brought out in the sauce, which is probably what most instructive way to engage Museum meat. Most seemed surprised by how people today associate with barbecue. visitors with the flavors of the past, something so simple could produce Participants were surprised to learn that although we cannot take the results so many complex flavors. Participants in the history of barbecue, it appears too seriously. After all, tastes have with lemon juice were less enthusiastic. that tomato-based sauces are relative changed a lot over 300 years, so For them, the tartness of the lemon newcomers that likely emerged at the someone living long ago may not overwhelmed the flavor of the pork. turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The have agreed with our workshop recipe we used was from the Marigold participants. But understanding how Vinegar was more readily available in the Cook Book written by Mary Baldwin and food has evolved over time sheds South than limes or lemons, so vinegar- Evelyn G. Hinds and published in the light on culinary conversations that based sauces predominated during the Jackson Sun in 1938: have occurred between people of 1800s. Our second workshop sauce was different ethnicities and based on a recipe originally published in backgrounds in Tennessee 1867 in Mrs. Hill’s New Receipt Book for ecipe over hundreds of years. the Kitchen by Georgia cook Annabella R The workshop connected P. Hill. The recipe instructed the cook to: 1½ cups CaCatchuptchup the past with the present and helped to keep the “Melt half a pound of butter; stir into 2 tbsp. Horseradish conversation going. it a large tablespoon of mustard, half a 1 tbsp. Lemon juice teaspoon of red pepper, one of black, 4 tbsp. WWorcestershireorcestershire sauce Rob DeHart salt to taste; add vinegar until the sauce History Curator has a strong acid taste. The quantity of 1 tsp. Salt vinegar will depend upon the strength of it.”

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for the BALLOT

Alice Paul sews a star on the suffrage flag, representing states that had ratified the 19th Amendment. (Library of Congress)

"Battle for the Ballot" Competition Invites Tennessee Students to Engage with Women’s Suffrage History

To help Tennessee students engage and reflect upon the student winners will receive a teacher gift card, as well as an 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, and Tennessee’s invitation to accompany their winning student(s) to Nashville. unique role in its ratification, The Official Committee of the State of Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial is sponsoring For additional information, teacher a statewide competition for grades K-12. There are separate competitions for K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and two competitions at the packets about the contest, curriculum 9-12 level. Prizes for K-5 include an Apple iPad for the top 3 resources, teacher workshops, and winners in each category. Grades 6-12 grand prize winners events please visit tnwoman100.com will receive scholarship money in a TNSTARS 529 account. throughout the year. Inquiries can be According to the Committee, “The Battle for the Ballot made to [email protected]. competition is built around the inquiry-process of project- based learning and is designed to hit grade-specific Under leadership from the Tennessee General Assembly, standards through a multi-disciplinary approach. It has members of the Official Committee of the State of Tennessee something for every grade level. While analyzing the Woman Suffrage Centennial include the Tennessee State historical issues of the women’s suffrage movement, it is an Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum, the opportunity for students to use their creativity, develop their Tennessee Department of Education, the Tennessee communication skills, and win some really cool prizes. Department of Tourist Development, the Tennessee Historical Commission, the Tennessee State Historian, and the All winners will receive an invitation to be VIP participants in Tennessee Historical Society. a centennial celebration in Nashville. Sponsoring teachers of

8 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 REACHING ACROSS THE STATE DIGITALLY Students across the state have been solving mysteries days in Tennessee,” Houston said. “We’ve had good at the Museum from hundreds of miles away. With interaction with the museum educators, and our class our new digital learning programs, teachers are able participation has been excellent.” to connect with the Museum without leaving their classrooms. Programs like Mystery Artifacts, Mystery Houston went on to say, “We’ve been studying early Skype, and Interview with a Famous Tennessean are all Tennessee history for several weeks now, including standards-based activities that get students thinking how Tennessee was settled. The students have learned critically about Tennessee history. about several important figures in state history like John Sevier, James Robertson, John Donelson and Recently a classroom in Union City, Tennessee several others. I believe this program has really helped participated in the Mystery Artifact lesson. Teacher students comprehend that period of time.” David Houston commented on how well it helped history come to life for his students. “It’s been To reserve a digital learning activity, please visit something different for the students, rather than the education section on the Museum’s website: the usual classroom lecture and notes, and I believe tnmuseum.org. they’ve really enjoyed learning about Frontier

Working with our partners from the Tennessee Taking State Library and Archives (TSLA), the Museum is delivering teacher in-service Professional opportunities across the state on the topic Development of women’s suffrage in Tennessee. During these full day workshops, teachers engage on the Road with primary sources from the Museum and TSLA collections and participate in entertaining and thought-provoking lesson activities. Check out the website TNwoman100.org for more details and to find out when this program will be in your area. 9 EDUCATION NEWS From Here to Everywhere

The Tennessee State Museum’s Traveling Trunks program brings Tennessee to life in classrooms and libraries throughout the state. This educational outreach program developed by the Museum provides teachers with hands-on materials that connect students to Tennessee history and culture in a very real and engaging way. Filled with real and reproduction artifacts, portraits, paintings, books, music CDs, DVDs, and more, the trunks allow teachers to tap new and creative ways to experience social studies in their classroom. Teachers can choose from ten topics, including The Life and Times of the First Tennesseans, Cherokee in Tennessee: Their Life, Culture, and Removal, The Lives of Three Tennessee Slaves and Their Journey Towards Freedom, Understanding Women's Suffrage: Tennessee's Perfect 36, The Modern Movement for Civil Rights in Tennessee and Tennessee: Its Land & People. The best part for educators throughout the state is that the program and shipping of the trunk is provided free of charge. The only cost incurred by the school is a nominal fee to ship it back.

Robertson Montgomery Sumner Obion Houston Cheatham Weakley Smith Davidson Dyer Carroll Benton Dickson Williamson Rutherford Madison Maury Decatur Bedford Marshall Shelby Moore McNairy Fayette Giles Franklin

10 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 Based on current reservations through the end of the 2019-20 school year, 48 counties in Tennessee are scheduled to be served by the Traveling Trunks program. That's more than half of Tennessee counties.

If you live in one of the counties not currently served by the program, or know educators in those areas, and would like information on using a trunk, please contact us through the education

Image courtesy of Houston Middle section of our website at tnmuseum.org, or School, Shelby County contact Katie Yenna at 615-770-5857.

Sullivan Macon Hawkins Carter Fentress Washington Overton Hamblen Greene Smith Putnam Knox DeKalb Cocke Cumberland Rutherford Warren Rhea McMinn Sequatchie Hamilton Bradley Polk anklin Marion

11 By the NUMBERS 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION

44,750 189,211 Visitors served with tours of the Number of Visitors to new Museum since grand opening State Capitol

38,950 77 Students and adults served at Tennessee counties the Museum as part of formal represented in school and group tours those tours

45% 35,360 Increase in followers Students served statewide across all social through the Museum’s media channels Traveling Trunks Program

12 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 9,552 110 Objects labeled art Works of Art currently on and architecture in the display in In Search of the New: Museum’s collection Art in Tennessee After 1900

The number of African American artists to have a one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art before William Edmondson’s 0 groundbreaking 1937 solo exhibition.

5 256 Years Museum awarded Stops on the Tennessee Music Pathways trail a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence

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Streetcar Segregation Sign A sign denoting segregation on Nashville streetcars during the early to mid 1900s was recently acquired by the Museum. Unjust laws limiting the rights of African Americans were established after the Civil War during the Jim Crow Era. One of the outcomes of these policies was the segregation of electric streetcars in Nashville. Electric streetcars started operating in Nashville in 1889 to help keep up with the city’s growth and expansion. By January 1905, Bill No. 87 was introduced to the General Assembly to “promote the comfort of public travel by providing for and securing the separation of white and [African American] passengers on streetcars.” The bill gave specific instructions on how the cars would be segregated, and what language was to be used on signs that designated each section. By July of that year, the bill became law, and signs like this were implemented. In reaction to this, African Americans boycotted the Nashville Transit Company and even started their own line, the Union Transportation Company. Although streetcars remained segregated, the boycott helped form the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Grantland Rice and Ben Fuqua Letters, 1929 The Museum recently added to the collection correspondence between Ben Fuqua, Tennessee native and attorney, and legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice, who was residing in New York City at the time. Rice was born and raised in Tennessee and graduated from Vanderbilt University. In these letters, the two men discuss the Cumberland University football team’s 1903 season. Rice responded to Fuqua, "[Cumberland University] was much the best team in the south that year and had a brilliant record all through the season." He was right. The team ended the season with a 6-1-1 record. Additionally, Fuqua explained to Rice that Tennessee senator, newspaper editor, and prohibitionist Edward Ward Carmack once predicted early in Rice’s career that he would one day become a successful writer.

Classical Six-String Acoustic Guitar, “Marta” Model, Made by Manuel Delgado, 2019 Manuel Delgado custom-made this guitar for the Tennessee State Museum’s collection. The guitar is of the type used in traditional Mexican mariachi ensembles. The top is German spruce, sides and back East Indian Rosewood, and neck 100-year-old Honduras mahogany. The fingerboard is African ebony with gold frets. The rosette on the top consists of wood inlay with abalone star, and the headstock features abalone and mother-of-pearl inlay to create a three-star motif to represent the state of Tennessee.

Delgado comes from a long line of guitar luthiers. His grandfather, Porfirio, and father, Candelario, built guitars in Mexico before immigrating to the Los Angeles area and becoming United States citizens. Delgado moved to Nashville in 2005 and custom-builds guitars for artists around the world.

14 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 College Grove Church Photogravure by Margaret Bourke-White The Museum has recently acquired a photogravure of a Williamson County church taken by photographer Margaret Bourke-White. Instead of being developed in a darkroom, a photogravure is typically printed with ink from a copper plate that is created from the photographer’s negative. An accomplished photojournalist, Bourke-White took the cover photo for the first issue of LIFE magazine and photographed the Dust Bowl, World War II, and other world events.

In 1936, Bourke-White and writer Erskine Caldwell documented the lives of Southern sharecroppers for their book You Have Seen Their Faces. When they traveled to College Grove, Bourke-White photographed congregation members from Locust Ridge Primitive Baptist Church.

Brown Family Signal Horn The Museum recently accepted a signal horn into the collection with ties to the Brown family of Dickson, Tennessee. The signal horn is made of wood with banded hand-forged iron wraps that are attached with handwrought tacks. Signal horns were generally made by coopers, experienced barrel makers who were skilled in stave making. The signal horn tradition is generally thought to come from the Appalachian Mountain regions of the South and possibly descend from the Swedish alphorns. They were used for signaling attacks, forest fires, times to eat, and could be used to communicate between stations and communities. The construction of the mouthpiece differentiates these signal horns from the more common musical horns. This particular horn was passed down through three generations of the Brown family.

Margaret Wood Dodge American Flag Bedspread, 1860 In the spring of 2019, the James Leonard Mee family donated an American flag motif bedspread to the permanent collection of the Tennessee State Museum. Mee’s third great grandmother, Margaret Wood Dodge of Pomona, Tennessee, designed and sewed the bedspread in 1860. Dodge’s son, famed portrait painter John Wood Dodge, hand painted the eagle panel in the middle.

Native New Yorkers before their move to Tennessee, both mother and son were staunch Unionists when the Civil War engulfed the nation in 1861. Dodge sewed several replicas and variations of this same design for auction to support the Union troops. In March of 1864, at the age of 78, Dodge entered a silk version of this same bedspread in New York’s Brooklyn Sanitary Fair. Two hundred donors gave one dollar a piece to purchase and send it to President Abraham Lincoln. The president wrote back to Dodge, “Permit me to return my most cordial thanks for the beautiful present transmitted by you – Abraham Lincoln.”

The still vibrant colors of the material and the striking painted American eagle look much as they would have when Dodge pieced and sewed the bedspread one hundred and fifty nine years ago. Its condition speaks to the care and proper storage the donors gave to their family heirloom.

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Native American MOCCASINS at the Tennessee State Museum

In 2014, the Tennessee State Museum likely, worn on the left foot and had been for the Chickasaw people. The two men was extremely fortunate to receive a mended several times. Several holes are continued to meet, and their respectful donation of prehistoric Native American located on the underside at the heel and relationship aided the negotiations items originally found in a dry rock shelter toes. This may be the reason the moccasin between their groups. in Grundy County, Tennessee. Two local was discarded at the back of the shelter— residents, with permission from the land most of the other items were found in a This beautiful pair of deerskin moccasins owner, discovered the shelter in 1969. centralized area. A radiocarbon test was was created using some European trade The collection came under the care of conducted on material from the inner materials, including wool, glass beads, silk the late Jack W. Pickett, and later was heel pocket of the slipper. This test dated and cotton thread. It is believed that they passed down to his heirs, who requested the moccasin to about 375 CE, during the were made by a Chickasaw artisan and the collection be named in honor of Woodland Cultural period in Tennessee. given to Robertson by Piominko during him. It consists of perishable and stone These types of organic materials are one of their meetings. Also pictured is the artifacts totaling 217 pieces, including not often found in Tennessee. The rock woman's beaded bag that was gifted at an assortment of rarely found perishable shelter offered minimal exposure to rain, the same time. materials such as a fragmented arrow snow and sun as well as a unique soil shaft, remnants of a basket, nets and chemistry that provided the opportunity The Tennessee State Museum will cordage. There was also a plain-weave for preservation. preserve these items, continue to slipper or moccasin. research and learn more about them, CHICKASAW MOCCASIN and share them with visitors for MOCCASIN FROM THE JACK W. James Robertson, one of the founders of generations to come. PICKETT COLLECTION Fort Nashborough, hosted a meeting in The slipper, shown above with the June of 1783 at Richland Creek in present woven basket fragment and feather day West Nashville. This conference fletching, was made from Eryngium was between the recent yuccifolium fibers, commonly referred settlers and the Chickasaw to as rattlesnake master. Its maker dyed people. It is believed that portions of the slipper dark brown, Robertson met Piominko, forming a wide band around the heel also known as Mountain and two parallel stripes over the toes and Leader, at this time. up to the opening. The wear pattern on Piominko served as a the bottom suggests that it was, most leader and diplomat

16 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 HISTORY COMES ALIVE

In September, the Museum hosted a Lunch & Learn presentation which explored places to eat across the state that represent the region’s unique flavors. The discussion with Museum staff covered barbecued ham and buttermilk in the east to soul food and slugburgers in the west. Cruze Farm Dairy, one of the modern practitioners featured in the Let’s Eat! exhibition, was onsite offering samples of their popular buttermilk ice cream. Pictured is Nicole Nomany, curatorial assistant, wearing a cornbread hat.

The Tennessee Book Club, formed in partnership with Nashville Public Library, meets once a month at the Museum. This summer, the group read This Promise of Change by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy, which uses poetry to tell the moving story about the fight for racial equality in Tennessee schools, and how a group of 12 courageous children led Clinton High School into becoming the first public high school in the South to desegregate in 1956. After the book discussion, Museum staff gave a tour of its Civil Rights exhibition, which includes the story of the Clinton 12. Information about upcoming books can be found at tnmuseum.org/book-club.

The Museum invited the public into a discussion of southern food with In Conversation: Tandy Wilson, Erin Murray & Keitlyn Alcantara. Wilson is the chef at City House in Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood and the recipient of the 2016 James Beard Award. Murray is an editor at Nashville Lifestyles magazine and author of the book Grits: A Cultural & Culinary Journey Through the South. Alcantara is a doctoral candidate of Anthropological Bioarchaeology at Vanderbilt University and works with Sazon Nashville in teaching Hispanic heritage through food. TSM Curator Rob DeHart moderated the discussion.

In August, the Museum participated in the kick- off event for the Official Committee of the State of Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial at historic War Memorial Auditorium. The event opened a year of commemoration for the momentous and successful vote that led to the passing of the 19th Amendment giving American women the right to vote. Pictured here, TSM program Visitors experienced chilling ghost stories from Tennessee’s assistant Grace Allen past at the annual Haunted Museum Storytelling Festival in interprets the role of October. Along with hearing spirited tales, over 1,800 visitors a Tennessee suffragist enjoyed many festivities including making crafts, a costume during the ceremony. parade and the Nashville Public Library’s Puppet Truck.

17 COOKIES, & CarolsDecember 14Crafts • 10 am–3 pm

Join us for a FREE festive holiday event that includes cookie decorating, designing holiday cards, and making crafts. Local choirs will perform favorite Christmas carols and spread holiday cheer throughout the day. Holiday sweaters and festive wear are welcomed. For more information, contact Morgan Byrn at [email protected] or 615-770-5866.

18 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 RECURRING PROGRAMS DECEMBER

Highlight Tours of the Museum exhibitions 10 Homeschool Day: Holiday are offered every day at 2 p.m. The Museum Traditions in Tennessee features some never-before-seen artifacts. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Our Museum Highlights guided tour is a Homeschool families are invited to attend a free, great way to see some of those artifacts and holiday-themed education event. Come and learn hear the stories of Tennessee. Join one of our about holiday traditions and the stories of the experienced guides as they unlock the stories people living in Tennessee. We will have holiday of these one-of-kind artifacts from throughout crafts and storytime throughout the day. This event Tennessee history. is free and doesn't require a reservation.

Storytime takes place every Thursday and Please email or call Morgan Byrn, Morgan.Byrn@ Saturday at 10:30 a.m. For children 3 to 6 years tn.gov or 615-770-5866, if you have questions. old, this recurring event includes a book reading and craft or other activities. No reservations are required. 11 Lunch & Learn: History of Holiday Sweets in Tennessee Some events require registration. RSVP In partnership with Nashville at tnmuseum.org/calendar-of-events. Farmers’ Market 12 p.m. Bring your lunch and your sweet tooth to the NOVEMBER Museum for a special Lunch & Learn as we explore holiday baking traditions in the Volunteer State. Nashville Farmer’s Market will present the history and origins of some iconic Tennessee desserts and how they have played a part in holidays of the past and present. There will also be a discussion on popular traditions such as cookie and recipe exchanges.

21 Book Club: Living Voices of the Cherokee 6 p.m. The Museum, together with Nashville Public Library, celebrates Native American Heritage Month with a discussion of Living Stories of the Cherokee. In its introductory essay, editor Barbara Duncan writes about the Cherokee storytelling tradition and explains the “oral poetics” style in which the stories are presented. Following 14 Carols, Crafts and Cookies the book discussion, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. guests are invited to join Join us for a festive event that includes cookie Museum staff on a tour decorating, designing holiday cards, and making of exhibit areas that focus festive crafts. Local choirs will perform Christmas on Tennessee’s Native carol favorites to spread holiday cheer throughout American history. For the day. Holiday sweaters and festive wear are more information about welcomed. the Tennessee Book Club, contact Mamie Hassell at

CALENDAR OF EVENTS CALENDAR For more information contact Morgan Byrn at [email protected] [email protected] or 615-770-5866.

19 tasting. No Passport Required, part of the PBS/Eater series hosted by renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson, takes viewers on an inspiring journey across the U.S. to explore and celebrate the wide-ranging diversity of immigrant traditions and cuisine woven into American food and culture. Viewers will also get a taste of NPT’s Taste of Home, a survey of various culinary creations of immigrants in Nashville. The screening will include tastings of food featured in the Taste of Home documentary and be followed by a Q&A with a panel of culinary experts. Attendees will also have an opportunity to tour the exhibition Let’s Eat! Origins and Evolutions of Tennessee Food. 26–30 Holiday Highlights Tours at both 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Museum is a terrific place to bring friends and family during the holiday season. Museum staff will host two free educational tours during this time that give visitors an overview of the exhibitions and highlight some of the most important artifacts in our collection.

JANUARY 15 Lunch & Learn: The Story of One of Tennessee’s Most Historic Bridges While the event is free, space is limited to availability. A link for reservations will be found on the Museum 12 p.m. website tnmuseum.org on the Events Calendar page. Native American historian Toye Heap will tell 23 Farmhand Community Dinner the story of the In partnership with Nashville Farmers’ Market 1823 Nashville Save the date! The Museum will host a culinary feast Toll Bridge, the organized by our friends at the Nashville Farmers’ Market. first bridge over The menu, inspired by the exhibition Let’s Eat! Origins the Cumberland and Evolutions of Tennessee Food, will represent a typical River. The bridge dinner historically provided to farm workers at the end of was used by the a long day in the fields. It’s sure to include your favorite Cherokee on the Southern fixins’ — all prepared by an amazing line-up of Trail of Tears in chefs who support the Market’s farmers and artisans. 1838, and torn down in 1851 to allow the newer, taller steamboats of the day to use the river. A remaining More information on how to purchase tickets will be structure of the bridge was discovered in 2012 and announced closer to the event. is now a certified site on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail.

Bring your lunch to the Museum and join us for this free presentation where you can learn a little history while enjoying your meal.

16 Screening of No Passport Required & Reception In partnership with Nashville Public Television 5:30 to 8 p.m. In partnership with Nashville Public Television (NPT), we present at a unique film screening and food CALENDAR OF EVENTS CALENDAR

20 TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | FALL 2019 CHILDREN’S CORNER The Douglas Henry State Museum Commission Thomas S. Smith, Chair Nancy Baker DeFriece, Vice Chair Harbert Alexander, Sr. The Honorable Victor H. Ashe, II Tina Hodges Walter G. Knestrick The Honorable Susan Lynn, House of Representative The Honorable Steve K. McDaniel Deanie Parker Scott Price Laura W. Travis The Honorable Bo Watson, Senate Representative Eleanor Yoakum Robert N. Buchanan III, Ex Officio Ashley Howell, Ex Officio

Tennessee State Museum Foundation Board of Directors Mike Kelly, Vice Chair Charles B. Welch Jr., Treasurer Dianne Neal, Secretary

Foundation Board Members Hanukkah Story Time Clare Armistead THURSDAY SATURDAY Trudy Byrd December 19 December 21 Mary Ann Clark 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Angel Cropper The Honorable Michael Curcio, House of Representative There will be special activities happening in the Children’s Gallery The Honorable Howard Gentry this December in recognition of Hanukkah. During Storytime, we Douglas C. H. Henry will be reading Shmelf the Hanukkah Elf, a holiday tale of an elf Ruth E. Johnson Christine Karbowiak on an adventure from the North Pole to uncover the traditions Mike Kelly of Hanukkah. Afterwards, we will make dreidel stained glass Mayor Bill Ketron window art with tissue paper. Hang it in your window and see Pamela Lewis the colored light shine through. Come and join us for a fun Mary Pearce The Honorable Dawn White (Senate morning at the Tennessee State Museum. Representative) Ashley Howell, Ex Officio

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The Mammoth Mastodon is the Museum's unofficialStore mascot, and the Museum Store has an array of merchandise featuring the massive animal. With children’s shirts and stickers featuring artwork by Lucie Rice, plush and plastic toys, puzzles and more, it’s easy to complete your holiday gift list. Be sure to see the mastodon jaw and tusk on exhibition in First Peoples.