#san ildefonso

[old-powwow-days]

AMBER MORNINGSTAR, 2019 | NAOMI, 2017 | JULIA, 2018

by Cara Romero as part of her First American Girls series

[redarmyscreaming]

Massive Spanish Flag from the Warship San Ildefonso (1805)

[ierbareta]

Women Working Clay, Shaping Vessels; The Air Dried Vessels are Polished by Rubbing with Pebbles; The Vessels are Decorated; They are Set up on Props for Firing; Firings in the Open Air. Tonita Peña/Quah Ah (San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1893-1949) early 20th century, casein on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, accessed via "Tonita Peña and the Politics of Pueblo Art" by Elizabeth S. Hawley

[forever70s]

Blue Corn (aka Crucita Gonzales Calabaza), Tewa pottery artist from the San Ildefonso Pueblo - 1973

[thebigkelu]

Francisco Vigil, Govr. Pueblo San Ildefonso , Tewa - Vroman - 1900

[starofmithras]

Kaire, Castor and Polydeukes! ⚡

Saviors of storm-wracked ships, tamers of horses, and protectors of travelers, the Dioskouroi (Divine Twins) appear to sailors during storms in the guise of St. Elmo's fire--an electrical discharge which creates a glow about the mast-head and rigging of ships. Every year on July 15th the ancient Romans celebrated the feast of Castor and Pollux, their Roman counterparts.

"Come hither, leaving the island of Pelops, strong sons of Zeus and Leda; appear with kindly heart, Castor and Polydeukes, who go on swift horses over the broad earth and all the sea, and easily rescue men from chilling death, leaping on the peaks of their well-benched ships, brilliant from afar as you run up the fore-stays, bringing light to the black ship in the night of trouble."

--- Alcaeus

Statue: The San Ildefonso Group, a Roman sculpture from 10 BC showing Castor and Pollux or Orestes and Pylades, Museo del Prado, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

[picard-schreckensberger]

Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso pueblo), 1912

Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico

Photo by Jesse Nusbaum

[illustratus]

Spanish naval ensign of the warship the 'San Ildefonso' which was captured by the 'Defence' at the Battle of Trafalgar, on display for photography in 1962, draped over the parapet of the Queen’s House, Greenwich.

Spanish ensign captured with their warship, 'San Ildefonso', 74 guns, by the 'Defence' at Trafalgar. It was hung in the crossing of St Paul's Cathedral during Nelson's funeral service on 9 Jan 1806 and was presented to Greenwich Hospital for display in the former Royal Naval Museum in the Royal Naval College at Greenwich by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's in 1907. It passed to the NMM with much of the rest of that collection in 1936. This design of ensign was in use from 1785 to 1931. The field is divided into three horizontal stripes; red, yellow, red. On an applied patch in the central stripe is an oval containing the arms of Castile (a yellow/gold castle on a red field) and Leon (a white field with a red lion rampant ), a crown above. The arms appear the have been printed or stencilled. Inscribed on the hoist in ink: 'SAN ELDEFONSO'.