BY CHRISTEN McCURDY PHOTOS BY JASON E. KAPLAN T here are pieces of Oregon history on movie screens this fall. Killers of the Flower Moon, the much-anticipated Martin Scorsese epic that hit theaters at the end of October, tells the story of a series of murders committed in the Osage Nation in the 1920s after oil was found on tribal land. A New York Times story from the period describes the Osage as the richest people in the world. For the famously exacting Scorsese and his production team, showing viewers how the Osage lived before white neighbors conspired to strip them of their wealth meant learning everything they possibly could about how they lived at that moment in time. “They got everything right, including the food that [the Osage] ate, the china that they liked,” Barry Friedman tells Oregon Business, noting a scene in which characters are eating grape dumplings off Spode china, which was extremely popular in the Osage Nation in those years. “They really did their homework.” Part of that homework involved a call to Friedman himself. He’s the author of two books on Native American trade blankets — Chasing Rainbows and Still Chasing Rainbows — and he likely owns the largest collection of trade blankets in the world. The film’s producers reached out to Friedman both for consultation on which types of blankets would have been most popular with the 1920s Osage and to source vintage blankets themselves. In all he sold 60 blankets for the production. Producers also reached out to THE NEW WEAVE Pendleton Woolen Mills is one of Oregon’s oldest and best-known manufacturers. What’s next for the brand? 26
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