Some things in life are free . . . On Saturday, September 24, 2016, individuals will have an opportunity to visit the Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center with FREE admission. The museum will participate in the thirteenth annual Museum Day Live! presented by Smithsonian magazine. On Museum […]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
5 posts
Summer is almost over and this is the LAST WEEK for our free classes! Join us on Thursday for these two amazing classes! This Thursday Talking Sticks 2:00 pm What is a talking stick? How are they made? Did the Native Americans actually use them? Join us for an hour […]
Not all beads used by natives were symmetrical or perfectly formed. For example, animal teeth were often used to create art or adorn regalia. Early tooth beads had a hole drilled through them to allow a string or sinew to pass through. Later, after some of the tribes became proficient […]
Beads come in many different shapes and colors The bead in a disk shape, called heishi, featured on this necklace are made out of coconut shell. To make the coconut shell into beads, a hole was drilled using a pump drill like the one below: Beads were drilled halfway through […]
It takes a village to BUILD a village! We hope you’ve seen our most recent update to what has been done in our Village Project. Our volunteers have been working hard to get our longhouse looking fantastic! We have had wonderful reviews from our summer visitors so far, but we […]