National museum, part 2, and Downtown

 The National Museum of the American Indian’s exhibit on the first floor is titled ‘Ancestral Connections’ because the artists use their tribal history, heritage, and native crafts for their art.

Rose Simpson, Pottery, Reed, Cotton Twine

Jeri Redcorn, recreated the lost art of Caddo Pottery

Isabel Rorick and Son Robin Rorick

Jackie Larson Bread, Bead Work

And Downtown, a stone carved map of Dutch New York and stone carvings of New York City’s History.  Fun fact among the many names the Native Americans had for New York, the Algonquian speaking Munsee people called Manhattan ‘Manahachtanienk’, “ place of general inebriation “.  I kid you not it’s carved in stone.