NK - The Tent is Inside Out?

[Christopher Merle]

If you haven't been to see the Polish exhibit Land of the Winged
Horseman at the Philbrook in Tulsa do go and see it. It has some pretty
awesome stuff. The armor, the paintings, the scepters, the furniture,
and the captured Turkish pavilion.

You know you are in the SCA when you spend most of your time examining
the tent as opposed all the other goodies to look at. They do have a
painting on the opposite wall from the tent so you can see how it's
really supposed to be set up. One of the Philbrook employees said that
it took over 20 hours to set it up. Hmmmm? What I thought was really
cool was that the walls were held up by loops and frogs (small wooden
cylinders). Very clever. If you look at the painting you can clearly see
interior tent poles.

There was an overlap but it was on the inside. There was a pole across
the top through straps on the outside holding the roof up. It was hung
from the ceiling. The outside looks weathered, though. So when you go
see the tent try to figure out whether it's set up inside out. I vote
for inside out because to me it makes sense the other way. But all that
aside it's a magnificent pavilion even if I think it's set up wrong.

Anyway the exhibit runs through June and is it's last US stop. It covers
the Golden Age of Poland when it was united with the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania from the late 16th century to the early 18th century. Though a
much smaller exhibit I thought it was every bit as opulent as the
Catherine the Great exhibit I saw a few years ago in Dallas.


Christoph Merulus

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Christopher Merle <merle at webzone.net>
http://www.webzone.net/merle
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Save the Earth! It's the only planet with Chocolate!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------