User talk:Heironymous Rowe/Mississippian culture shell engravings

Article looks pretty close to ready to go live to me. I see it's been a couple of years since you worked on it. Any chance of polishing & publishing?

Best regards, Pete Tillman (talk) 05:20, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pete, thanks. I doubt I will ever get around to it, at least not in the immediate future anyway. It you look at the bottom of many sections there are links to other source material that I never got around to incorporating. And I just clicked on one of them and it 404ed Plus I'm sure there have been some things published since then that should also be included. If you want to do the work and go live with the article, please do. I really hate that I got it this close and then abandoned it. He iro 18:06, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I hear you. I might tackle it at some point, if you don't mind me picking your brain someimes. You know a hell of a lot more about Missisippian (etc) cultures than I do.

Incidentally, I bought a killer Underwater Panther pot a few Indian Markets back from Jeri Redcorn, an enrolled Creek from Norman OK. She's a great potter, and I should get permission from her to use the photo here. Very pleasant lady, excellent potter. Here's NMAI's picks in 2010: http://insider.si.edu/2010/04/three-clay-vessels-by-native-american-potter-jeri-redcorn-added-to-smithsonian-collections/

It was fun to get back to my Okie roots for a couple of weeks -- I grew up in Stillwater, and was in Tulsa for 2 weeks to look after my sister after major surgery. Got to the Gilcrease, the first and best. I'd forgotten he was also Creek, as was Mrs Ida Glenn, namesake of Tulsa's Glenn Pool, that Mr. Gilcrease discovered around 1905, made his (and her) fortune, and financed his collecting for decades. He had a very good eye and could afford the best. Plus, the city & county of Tulsa stepped in, when he fell on financial hard times in the mid-50s, and kept his collection & museum in Tulsa. Plus, Tulsa recently passed a bond issue to double the size of the museum! Good news. And the museum cafe serves *very* tasty grub, and the views over the Osage Hills are *wonderful*, even in winter, Class act all around. Cheers -- Pete Tillman Pete Tillman (talk) 21:12, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]