Racist stereotypes of Native people circulated in the 19th century through objects made for American homes. This pitcher for serving hot milk—made by Baltimore-based silversmith Samuel Kirk—shows a white person’s perception of how Native people and their lives transformed after European colonization. On one side, a Native man with a shaved head and feather headdress crouches low to the ground while hunting with a bow-and-arrow. The other side shows a Native man holding a Western shotgun and wearing a European-style shirt and long pants in place of his traditional fur clothing and headdress. Both images fail to offer true insight into the complexities of colonization’s impact on Native people. Instead, objects like these diminish and oversimplify Native representation by treating their experiences as decoration.