A blue nomex jacket with seven embroidered patches and a pin commemorating various flights of NASA's space shuttle program. An American flag patch is also on the left shoulder and the NASA logo can be seen on the front.
A soapstone sculpture by First Nations artist Leo Arcand depicting the profile of an eagle with half of a man's face in the center. Gift of Canada.
A mechanical bird music clock made by music box atelier Reuge of Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, and modeled after a common chiffchaff. Gift of the State of Qatar.
A sterling silver honey jar with lid and dipper by Tiffany and Co. The jar is decorated with a band of honeycomb patterns, and the lid has the First Lady’s honey bee symbol as a handle.
A traditional Maori weapon by New Zealand artist Aden Hoglund with a short broad-bladed club and carved from New Zealand greenstone. Gift of New Zealand.
A decorative ulu made of baleen and antler on a wooden display base. An image of an orca is carved onto the baleen, and a circular piece of antler serves as the handle.
A painting depicting the White House at night with X-wing Starfighters from Star Wars in the sky, along with fireworks. The painting is framed in a gold rococo style frame with navy and maroon matting.
A black and silver signing pen used to sign H.R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The pen is a Cross brand rolling ball pen with a silver presidential seal and signature on the barrel.
Two small metal crosses made out of cartridge cases from the civil war in Liberia and later purchased as souvenirs in Monrovia, Liberia, by Ambassador Swanee Hunt. Amb. Hunt gifted these to Council Executive Director Tina Tchen as a thanks for the 2009 creation of the White House Council on Women and Girls.
A sample golden egg from the 2016 Annual White House Easter Egg Roll. One side has President and Mrs. Obama’s signatures and a jumping rabbit logo on the other side.
A ceramic soup bowl set designed with different animal motifs was displayed in the First Lady’s Office on the East wing of the White House.
A Steuben Design crystal baseball with the Washington Nationals logo displayed on the surface. The black aluminum base was inscribed to commemorate the 2010 Opening Day.
A wooden carving of an adult elephant walking with its calf. Gift of the State of South Sudan.
A scroll painting depicting scenes from Beijing, China, along with a gold key on a white marble stand engraved with English words and Chinese characters. Gift from the People’s Republic of China.
A figurine of a bronze Carabao water buffalo pulling a stone cart with a driver on a granite base. Gift from the Republic of the Philippines.
A “Votes for Women” sash with dark gold, white, and purple colors representing the American Women’s Suffrage movement.
Janet Kavandi, Director of Flight Crew Operations at Johnson Space Center, presents President Obama with a jacket during a drop by with the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Oval Office, Nov. 1, 2011. The jacket features patches from several past space shuttle missions. Pictured in the background, from left, are: Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialist Sandy Magnus, Commander Chris Ferguson and Mission Specialist Rex Walheim.
