shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileMontana

above Wisdom, in the Big Hole valley

Big Hole Battlefield interpretive

Name: Big Hole Battlefield interpretive — on ceramic tile, by WenderVista
Brand: WenderVista

— — what the morning of August ninth still holds.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.

— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand

— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines

— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall

— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround

— a note from the studio

“The visitor center sits on the ridge above the meadow where Colonel John Gibbon's column opened fire on a sleeping Nez Perce camp before dawn on August 9, 1877. Exhibits trace the Nimíipuu flight from the Wallowa Valley toward Canada, and the names of the dead from both sides. The room is quiet on purpose.

from the studio

— bring it home

Big Hole Battlefield interpretive, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?

One tile — square or rectangle.

How big?

the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand

6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb

Surface finish

A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.

How it sits

A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.

$58

Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.

— size

6 × 6 in

15 cm

— weighs

1.6 lb

solid in the hand

— surface

ceramic, hand-finished

art rests beneath a thin glossy finish

— from

Knoxville, TN

our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies

— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Big Hole Battlefield interpretive

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.

— the place

Big Hole National Battlefield lies twelve miles west of Wisdom, Montana, in the Big Hole valley along Montana Highway 43, at an elevation near 6,400 feet. The site preserves the ground where the U.S. Seventh Infantry under Colonel John Gibbon attacked a Nez Perce (Nimíipuu) encampment of about 750 people before dawn on August 9, 1877. It is administered by the National Park Service as a unit of Nez Perce National Historical Park, which spans thirty-eight separate sites across four states.

— informed by NPS — Big Hole National Battlefield, Wikipedia — Battle of the Big Hole

— the visit

The visitor center is open all year, daily in summer and Wednesday through Sunday from late fall through spring; the grounds remain open sunrise to sunset every day. Inside, exhibits step through the 1,170-mile Nez Perce flight from the Wallowa Valley toward Canada in 1877 and name the roughly seventy to ninety Nimíipuu and twenty-nine U.S. soldiers killed at the camp below. A short interpretive film runs hourly. Admission is free.

— informed by NPS — Plan Your Visit

— the silence

The room is built for stillness. Voices drop without anyone asking. The large window above the relief model holds the meadow, the river willows, and the white teepee poles that mark the camp site below. Most visitors stay longer than they planned. Park rangers note that Nez Perce descendants come through often, and that the way the building meets the ground is meant, in part, to honour that visit.

— informed by NPS — Tribal Connections

— where

United States · Beaverhead County, Montana

— within

Nez Perce National Historical Park

— position

45.6429° N · 113.6486° W

— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.

19 km E

Wisdom

town

1 km S

Big Hole River

river

18 km W

Bitterroot Range

mountain range

Big Hole Battlefield interpretive

Wisdom

Big Hole River

Bitterroot Range

— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Big Hole Battlefield interpretive — and about bringing the piece home.

— about the place

The U.S. Seventh Infantry attacked the Nez Perce camp before dawn on August 9, 1877. Fighting continued through the next day. The Nez Perce broke the siege the morning of August 10.

Estimates vary, but roughly seventy to ninety Nez Perce, most of them women, children, and elders, and twenty-nine U.S. soldiers were killed. Casualty figures are entered in the National Park Service record.

The National Park Service, as a unit of Nez Perce National Historical Park. Park headquarters is at Spalding, Idaho, but Big Hole has its own visitor center and superintendent on site.

Yes, on a reduced schedule. From late fall through spring it generally opens Wednesday through Sunday. Summer hours run daily. Admission has been free since the park combined with Nez Perce NHP.

A small museum of artefacts, a relief model of the battle, oral history recordings from Nimíipuu descendants, and a short interpretive film. A bookstore stocks Mark Brown and Alvin Josephy.

— about the piece in your home

It has been. The piece does not soften what happened at Big Hole; it holds the ground with respect. A Medium suits a study or library wall; a Small reads as a quiet remembrance on a shelf.

The muted greys and deep ochres of the building under stormlight settle into Mountain-modern, Library-traditional, and Western-quiet palettes. The piece reads best against warm wood or unbleached linen.

Yes. Many of our Big Hole customers place the piece in studies, in church reading rooms, or alongside genealogical records. The Keepsake works on a desk or shelf as a small remembrance.

A single Large covers most sofas. Above a long console, a 4-tile Mural extends the ridge-and-meadow composition; the 9-tile Mural is for a wall meant to be returned to.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. For most buyers, this piece settles in a quieter room, a study, a hallway, or a library, rather than a kitchen.

A soft microfibre cloth, lightly dampened with plain water. No solvents, no abrasive pads. The colour lives in the surface, not on it.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is painted in our own studio language and is not licensed from any outside source.

— if this one stayed with you