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A Simple Gift
A simple gift of a frog
between man and child bridges a friendship between two nations. This
image commemorates our humble beginnings in the tradition of the first
Thanksgiving.
Our national holiday really
stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the Pilgrims and
the Wampanoag to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest.
A
Simple Gift by Jack Paluh
24" x 30"
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Hand
Signed & Numbered Limited Canvas Edition of 450 $250.00
In 1600 the Wampanoag probably were as many as 12,000 with
40 villages divided roughly between 8,000 on the mainland and
another 4,000 on the off-shore islands of Martha's Vineyard
and Nantucket. The three epidemics which swept across New
England and the Canadian Maritimes between 1614 and 1620 were
especially devastating to the Wampanoag and neighboring
Massachuset
with mortality in many mainland villages (i.e. Patuxet)
reaching 100%. When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, fewer than
2,000 mainland Wampanoag had survived. The island Wampanoag
were protected somewhat by their relative isolation and still
had 3,000. At least 10 mainland villages had been abandoned
after the epidemics, because there was no one left. After
English settlement of Massachusetts, epidemics continued to
reduce the mainland Wampanoag until there were only 1,000 by
1675. Only 400 survived King Philip's War.
Still concentrated in Barnstable, Plymouth, and Bristol counties of
southeastern Massachusetts, the Wampanoag have endured and grown
slowly to their current membership of 3,000. The island communities of
Wampanoag on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket maintained a population
near 700 until a fever in 1763 killed two-thirds of the Nantucket. It
never recovered, and the last Nantucket died in 1855. The community
Martha's Vineyard has sustained itself by adding native peoples from
the mainland and intermarriage, but by 1807 only 40 were full-bloods.
Massachusetts divided the tribal lands in 1842 and ended tribal status
in 1870, but the Wampanoag reorganized as the Wampanoag Nation in
1928. There are currently five organized bands: Assonet, Gay Head,
Herring Pond, Mashpee, and Namasket. All have petitioned for federal
and state recognition, but only Gay Head (600 members but without a
reservation) has been successful (1987). The Mashpee (2,200 members)
were turned down by the federal courts in 1978.
Conservation Framing
Each double mat may vary
from print to print according to which frame you choose. If you
would like to
have a particular color of mat just call 1-302-875-2258 to place
your order. The best matching color is used for
each individual print and is not always the color shown here.
Each
print is framed using Conservation Acid Free & Lignin Free,
Alkaline pH buffered mat board & backing.
We use non glare glass, You may call us to request regular glass if you like, Other styles of glass are available. In conservation framing, We use
only Museum Quality materials and procedures
that will have no adverse
effects on a piece of artwork and will protect the artwork from
external damage.
