FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHS: IVAN GUNDRUM AND HIS REPRODUCTIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS.

This article focuses on Ivan Gundrum, an artist known for his ceramic reproductions of Florida Native American artifacts created primarily in the early 1960s at the Tallahassee Junior Museum. Gundrum, originally from Croatia, had a diverse artistic career including work in Russia, Europe, Cuba, and the United States, where he replicated Indigenous artifacts from Florida and the Caribbean, many of which were based on museum collections and archaeological publications. His reproductions, especially of pottery vessels and wooden artifacts from sites like Key Marco and Weeden Island, have been preserved and exhibited at institutions such as the Tallahassee Museum and Florida Southern College. Gundrum's work influenced local artists and archaeologists, and his legacy continues through artists like Marty Haythorn, who founded Ancient Hands, Inc. to honor Southeastern Native American artistic heritage.