• Post Office Mural - Pontotoc MS
    Medium: oil on canvas   "The Wedding of Ortez and SaOwana--Christmas 1540 was painted by Joseph Pollet and completed and installed in 1939. The mural depicts the feast given by Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto to honor the first recorded Christian marriage in North American, which took place near Pontotoc (Sanders & Cawthon, 1993).