Kamila Kudelska

December 20, 2018

Museum Minute: A Toy Gun in a Firearm Collection

It turns out the Cody Firearms Museum does not only collect real guns, it also has at least one toy gun. A…

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West poster highlighting cowboys, ca. 1896. Courier Litho. Co. 1.69.425
December 13, 2018

Museum Minute: The American Cowboy

It’s well known that President Theodore Roosevelt helped shape the American West as we know it today. But the curator of the…

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Cup, Lakota (Sioux), Northern Plains, ca.1900. Metal, rawhide, tin cones, glass beads, porcupine quills, tanned hide, wool cloth, cotton thread, dyed horse hair; NA.506.146. Courtesy of the Plains Indian Museum.
December 6, 2018

Museum Minute: Artistic Expression Through A Tin Cup

During the Reservation Era, roughly from the 1870s to the 1920s, Native Americans were required to move onto allotments of land. Rebecca…

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November 29, 2018

Native American High School Students Create Their Own Exhibit

For the past 15 years, the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West welcomes high school students from…

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Museum Minute: A Postcard to Charles Russell

It’s normal for librarians at the McCracken Research Library to find postcards, photos and other pieces of paper tucked away in a…

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William Herbert Dunton (1878-1936). Timberline, 1932. Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches. Gift in Memory of Hal Tate from Naoma Tate and the Family of Hal Tate. 9.05
November 22, 2018

Museum Minute: A Lone Bear

Back in 2015, when Karen McWhorter just started her position as curator of the Whitney Western Art Museum, she was interviewed for…

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