Displayed Artifacts

This uniform was worn by Norma W. Bailey, who worked as a nursing assistant at Bushnell during World War II.

This brick and this piece of wood came out of former Bushnell/IIS buildings. Someone has written Havasupai on the brick (possibly graffiti from the Intertribal years), while the piece of the window frame is signed by Bill Romer and dated June 6, 1943.

These blueprints show the plans for the Intermountain Indian School campus in 1949.

This jersey from the boys baseball team was collected by Arlie Pittman, a coach and science teacher.

The Buffalo Hunt
Allan Houser
1954
Houser completed this tempera painting while working at IIS. Hinckley Collection - Box Elder School District at Brigham City Museum.

This duck was made by an IIS student.

This work of art was done by IIS students in 1969. It shows the Navajo story of creation. The Navajo creation story is divided into four worlds, represented by the four different colors in the painting. The first world starts at the top, incorporating the top of the corn stock, and going down.

This painting, which was painted in the final ten years of the school includes the school's colors (turquoise and silver) and mascot (the eagle) along with images of a horse and teepees. It was painted by Donella Long Soldier, Nick Juan, and Michael Zospah.

These were teaching aids made by Robert E. Jensen, an electronics teacher at IIS.

This course catalog from 1979 shows the wide variety of courses available.

This is the reverse side of the painting full of handprints.

This painting includes hand prints and some names from May 1, 1984, when the school closed for good.

These curtains came out of Building 49, one of the residential buildings, prior to them being demolished. Different curtains were used over the years, including this pattern, a similar pattern in shades of green, and a floral pattern that was used at Bushnell.

This sign hung at the entrance to the Vocational Services building. Signs like this were used all over campus, some of which date to Bushnell days. The building numbers from signs such as this do not always match up with numbers used on campus maps. Some of these signs include more of a variety of colors, including red or green circles around the numbers.

1982 Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities. Students and their parents had to sign a form acknowledging agreement with the code. This document spells out expectations regarding student behavior and the consequences for violations. This includes shoplifting (where the punishment includes a discussion of how shoplifting affects the school), truancy, insubordination, possession or use of alcohol or drugs, etc.

This panel is but a small portion of a twenty-five foot long mural of Monument Valley. It was painted by A. Desiderio and R. Keedah of the class of 1971. Over the years, students were allowed to paint murals in many of the residential buildings. Because many of them were painted directly on plaster, some were lost to repainting, while others were simply destroyed as buildings were demolished, since they could not be removed.