Kamila Kudelska

Box, Huron, Eastern Woodlands, ca. 1890. Birch bark, Commercial cardboard, velvet cloth, glass beads, cotton thread. Chandler-Pohrt Collection, Gift of Mr. William D. Weiss. NA.106.247
July 5, 2018

Museum Minute: Commodity Cheese Box

Native American women used whatever materials they had to create objects. Hunter Old Elk, the curatorial assistant of the Plains Indian Museum,…

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Thomas Moran (American, born England, 1837-1926). Zoroaster Peak (Grand Canyon, Arizona), 1918. Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches. Purchased by the Board of Trustees in honor of Peter H. Hassrick. 11.96 (detail)
June 28, 2018

Museum Minute: Zoroaster Peak

Thomas Moran was one of the artist documenting the expansion to the West. He was on the first formal expedition in 1871…

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June 21, 2018

Museum Minute: The American Cheetah

The American Cheetah is a prehistoric mammal that roamed Northern Wyoming in the Miocene and the Pleistocene Epochs. The American Cheetah is…

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Buffalo Bill's Winchester carbine. Gift of Mrs. George T. Beck. 1.69.369
June 14, 2018

Museum Minute: Buffalo Bill’s Winchester Carbine

There are stories, which pass through hearsay but one can never be sure if the story is completely true. The Buffalo Bill…

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Jennings 2nd Model rifle, ca. 1851. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.151
June 7, 2018

Museum Minute: Jennings Rifle

The earliest known reference to the Winchester Arms Collection is a letter from Oliver Winchester to R.S. Lawrence in 1871. Oliver Winchester…

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Albert Bierstadt's Last of the Buffalo (detail). 2.60
June 4, 2018

Albert Bierstadt: A Conservationist

Albert Bierstadt—He’s a late 19th-century artist, most well-known for his majestic landscape paintings of the Wind River Range, Yellowstone, and the American…

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