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- Mandan-Hidatsa artist Dennis Fox studying the Peabody's
famous painted robe.
(99-12-10/53121)
- Wayne Pruse and Butch Thunder Hawk, United Tribes Technical
College, with Peabody Conservator Scott Fulton.
- Dr. Carla Dove, Smithsonian Institution, identifying feathers
on a calumet in the Peabody's Lewis and Clark collection.
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| Lewis
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As the
caretaker of the only remaining Native American artifacts
from the Lewis and Clark expedition,
the Peabody Museum launched seeral research projects,
took part in collaborative projects, and developed a new exhibit
highlighting the Lewis and Clark Collection. Many of these
projects represent partnerships with other institutions and
with Native American peoples.
- Lewis
and Clark Collection Research
The "Lewis
and Clark collection" at the Peabody Museum includes
what are believed to be the only remaining Native American
objects acquired by the Lewis and Clark expedition. The
Peabody Museum has spent the past seven years researching
and verifying these objects to determine which can with
certainty be attributed to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The results of those efforts are published in Arts of
Diplomacy: the Lewis and Clark Collection available
from Peabody Museum Press.
For a list of the objects associated with the expedition
click here.
- The
Peabody/Monticello Native Arts Project: In
January of 2003, the Peaboyd Museum will help inaugurate
the bicentennial at Monticello (www.monticello.org),
Thomas Jefferson's Virginia home. The Peabody collaborated
with Monticello and with Native American artists to create
objects that will replace those that once hung in Jefferson's
"Indian Hall." An exhibit that will recreate the
Indian Hall, titled "Framing the West at Monticello:
Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition"
will be open to the public from January through December
2003. Native American artists used the Peabody's extensive
collections fromt he period and the Lewis and Clark collection
as inspiration for their new works. Participating artists
included Butch Thunder Hawk (Lakota), Jo Esther Parshall
(Lakota), and Dennis Fox (Mandan/Hidatsa). The Peabody has
forged a partnership with Butch Thunder Hawk and United
Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, enabling
Thunder Hawk and his traditional arts students to visit
the Peabody while they work on this project.
- Peabody
Museum Exhibit:
In December of 2003, the Peabody Museum installed an exhibit
showcasing some of the original Native American objects
acquired by Lewis and Clark during their exploration of
the American west and its peoples. From Nation to Nation:
Examining Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection examines
Lewis and Clark's diplomatic mission, their relationship
with the tribes they encountered, and discusses the results
of Museum's research on the collection. The Exhibit is on
view at the Peabody Museum through December 2005.
- National
Bicentennial Exhibit:
The Peabody Museum has loaned 56 Native American objects,
some collected by Lewis and Clark, to the national bicentennial
exhibit, "Lewis and Clark: The National Exhibit."
This monumental exhibit, organized by Missouri
Historical Society, reunites all kinds of objects
used by the Corps of Discovery during the years of the expedition.
"One Land, Many Visions" will open at the Missouri
Historical Society in St. Louis during January, 2004. Throughout
2004-2006, the exhibit will travel to the Academy of Natural
Sciences in Philadelphia, the Denver Museum of Nature and
Science, the Oregon Historical Society, and the Smithsonian
Institution.
- Peabody
Book Publication: A
full account of the Peabody's intensive
research on the Lewis and Clark artifacts is published in
Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection,
the book recounts the story of how and where Lewis and Clark
obtained Native American objects and where the surviving
artifacts have traveled during the past 200 years. It also
contains detailed descriptions, biographies, and colored
photographs of more than 50 objects. Arts of Diplomacy
was written by Peabody Associate Curator Castle McLaughlin,
with contributions by Mandan-Hidatsa essayist Mike Cross,
Wasco fiber artist Pat Courtney Gold, anthropologist Anne
Marie Victor-Howe, and art historian Gaylord Torrence.
- Arts
of Diplomacy is available from Peabody
Museum Press.
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