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dataSN[1] = new data("images/collaboration/sn01_l.jpg","<font><strong>Nelda Schrupp</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;October 1999<br><br>&quot;My name is Nelda Schrupp. I'm a Nakota Sioux from Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation. We call ourselves, Ihunktewenea Nakota. We extend off the Yankton Sioux of South Dakota.<br><br>I received my Masters of Fine Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1993. While studying for my master's program I took the courses, Art of the Western World and European Art History. I combined that with my Native American heritage to come up with my contemporary designed rattles. I make wearable rattles in the form of necklaces, pendants, and lapel pins. I also make handheld rattles of various designs. The majority of my work is one of a kind pieces.<br><br>The titles of all my pieces are Amuletic Forms with (or without) Audio Aesthetics. Amulectic form refers to the sacredness of the rattle and audio aesthetics refers to the sound or voice that emanates from the rattles. I prefer to call them voices because each sound is unique to the shape of the rattle, also to the size of the chamber, and the size and amount of beads that I put in each hollow form.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[2] = new data("images/collaboration/sn02_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I combine soft pillow-like hollow forms with geometric and organic shapes to create one of a kind rattles. The squares and rectangles represent how Native American peoples were boxed in on Indian reservations. The free forms or organic shapes represent the spirit of Native Americans. No matter how much we are imprisoned on reservations or were kept in prisons at the beginning of the reservation period, the spirit could never be tied down. Our creativity has always been free and expressive.<br><br>The colors I use are the red, the yellow, the black, and the white. They are colors of the four directions, or as I like to call them, Northern Plains colors. The red and the yellow represent power, both physical and spiritual.<br><br>The stones I use are semiprecious stones of black onyx, jasper, carnelian, yellow citrine, amber, moonstone, and quartz. The metals I use are sterling silver, gold, a little bit of copper, brass, and bronze. I combine these materials with organic materials of horsehair and deer antler. I use horsehair to honor the horse. When it was first introduced to the Northern Plains it was pivotal to the survival of the Native Americans up in that area. The horse brought mobility and helped in battle, and helped us to hunt food for our people. The deer antler is used to honor the deer. After the buffalo was killed off the deer replaced the buffalo as the food staple and helped the survival of the Native Americans in the Northern Plains.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[3] = new data("images/collaboration/sn03_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #319 with Audio Aesthetic It is a sterling silver and deer antler pendant with a 24 inch chain. It measures 7 by 2 1/2 inches. This pendant is published on page 301 in a book titled North American Jewelry and Adornment, From Prehistory to the Present. The author is Lois Sherr Dubin and published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[4] = new data("images/collaboration/sn04_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #320 Without Audio Aesthetics. This silent rattle is made of 14 carat gold, 10 carat gold, sterling silver and deer antler. It measures 7 by 3 inches. I do make silent rattles; the sound is supposed to come from within the person and not necessarily the rattle itself.<br><br>On this piece you can see my numerical order in place. The four dots represent the four directions. This piece was made in 1993 while I was going through my masters program at the University of North Dakota. It was in my grad show and it was on exhibit in a show called, Artists Who Are Indian, at the Denver Art Museum. It was also published in the Christian Science Monitor. This piece I am keeping for my own collection.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[5] = new data("images/collaboration/sn05_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #926 with Audio Aesthetics. It is a wearable rattle made of sterling silver and yellow citrine. I gave it a secondary name of Dance Mammal With Voice, because when you manually shape the pendant it rattles and the arms and legs dance.<br><br>The chain is of my own design. I have four yellow citrine beads and four sterling silver beads which are wired in a configuration to form each link of the chain. I am the only one who does this technique.</font>")
dataSN[6] = new data("images/collaboration/sn06_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #914 with Audio Aesthetics. It is a handheld rattle made of deer antler, sterling silver, horsehair, carnelian, and black onyx. This is one of my newer designs where I'm adding more beads to the tassel area and giving it more decoration and surface texture. This rattle has little dots cutting across the piece; they represent deer tracks running across the field. This design is echoed on the backside.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[7] = new data("images/collaboration/sn07_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This one is Amuletic Form #809 with Audio Aesthetics. This is the ninth piece made in 1998. It's a hand held rattle of deer antler, sterling silver and five horsehair tassels.<br><br>I use a numerical system in my work. I use a series of fours and fives. Usually when there are four design elements in a piece this represents the four directions. On this piece you see five horsehair tassels. Usually the fifth one always represents mother earth with the four directions.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[8] = new data("images/collaboration/sn08_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #807 with Audio Aesthetics. This piece is made of sterling silver and deer antler. It has a really loud voice or sound.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[9] = new data("images/collaboration/sn09_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #727 with Audio Aesthetics. It is a hand held rattle made out of carnelian points, sterling silver, deer antler and horsehair. This one is in a private collection. It has a very delicate sounding rattle in the inside.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[10] = new data("images/collaboration/sn10_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #724 With Audio Aesthetics. This wearable rattle is made of sterling silver, black onyx, bone, and a deer antler tip with a black onyx stone on the cap. The chain is 28 inches long.<br><br>To make the rattle beads I melt down my scrap sterling silver and I make little beads out of them. Depending on the size and number of the beads, and the size and shape of the chamber is what determines the sound of the rattle.&quot;</font>")                                               
dataSN[11] = new data("images/collaboration/sn11_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #528 with Audio Aesthetics. This is a combination of a rattle in a cruciform. A cruciform is a crucifix shaped object. This was made to commemorate my boarding school days. It was made for a show called Boarding School Days.&quot;</font>")                                                 
dataSN[12] = new data("images/collaboration/sn12_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Amuletic Form #416 with Audio Aesthetics. It is made of sterling silver, tiger eye, and deer antler. This lapel pin measures 3 by 1 3/4 inches. This piece is in a private collection.&quot;</font>")
dataSN[13] = new data("images/collaboration/sn13_l.jpg","<font>&quot;“All the people in all the museums I've been to have been very, very helpful in my research. All the museum staff I've worked with have been very considerate and respectful of our cultural objects. I am very pleased with that.<br><br>I am going to add this newly gained knowledge and information to my lecture series. I do a lot of guest lecturing at different universities and colleges. This research will also add significant historical credibility to my artwork. I am going to take this information back to my reservation and I plan to do some presentations to school groups about the Native Artists Fellowship Program at the National Museum of the American Indian. I also would like to do some guest lecturing at the Indian Studies Department at the University of North Dakota. These are my short term goals for now.<br><br>The Native Artist Fellowship Program is far reaching. This information will stay with me for the rest of my life; it is important to my tribal heritage and will ultimately affect my long term goals as well.&quot;</font>")

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