On Sunday, April 4th, our dear friend, Edwina Wallat Labonte departed, leaving friends and family filled with beautiful memories of an amazing woman who lived life to the absolute fullest. We were most fortunate that Eddie chose to volunteer at the museum. She gave her energy, her unique talents, and […]
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We wanted to celebrate with all of you, our excitement over recently receiving a fantastic donation via our PayPal button on our website! To know you’re still thinking of us and supporting us during these interesting times is uplifting in more ways than one! If you are looking for where […]
We’ve got a brand new design available on our RedBubble Shop page! Created by our very own in house artist, take a look at this fabulous vector rendering of six individual pots from our exhibits! There’s a lot of visitors that have expressed on previous occasions that weren’t expecting such […]
We’ve got a brand new design available on our RedBubble Shop page! Created by our very own in house artist, take a look at this fabulous vector rendering of three dolls from our exhibits! There’s a lot of visitors that have expressed on previous occasions that weren’t expecting such a […]
We know from the inquiring calls we receive, that many of you are eagerly awaiting the date of our Annual event. It is with great sadness that we officially announce that we feel it is in the best interest of all involved that we postpone for a second time. We […]
The museum recently received a generous donation from Susan Radke recognizing long-time museum volunteer Gray Hawk Parsons. In making the gift, Susan wrote: In the spirit of gratitude, please accept this donation in honor of Gray Michael Parsons who continues to educate us about the resilient culture of Native Americans in […]
With winter months upon us and COVID-19 at ever increasing numbers, we’d like to remind you about our RedBubble shop where you can order things and they print on demand! All of our designs can be found at our REDBUBBLE SHOP SITE. Items purchased from RedBubble are created and shipped […]
After multiple requests from our fantastic supporters, we have added a way to donate to the museum from the safety of your home! Just go to any page on the museum website that has a right sidebar and you should see the button right near the top! You should be […]
One of our very special Christmas gifts this year was a food basket donated on our behalf by Linda & Victor Eure. The donation was made to the Southwest Indian Foundation which has a mission to provide: ” substantial school grants and individual tuition assistance, homes for battered women and […]
In a previous post, we shared information on Inuit dolls made by young girls. But not all dolls were made by children. Adults often made dolls designed for the tourist trade. While the children’s work lacked a lot of artistic detail, the dolls made by adults for sale to the […]
Let’s Work Together to Help Keep Our Navajo Sisters Warm! This is what was stated at the end of the mission statement for this project from the site FrenchGeneral. If you have some quilting fabric, embroidery scraps, notions (including thread, scissors, etc), batting, old bits and pieces, sewing books or […]
The museum hopes everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.On Friday we had a visit from two of our amazing long time volunteers, Anna Meshejlan and Patrick Basloe. They planted several North Carolina wildflowers and shrubs as part of a long-term project for the museum’s Natural History Center.. A buttonbush, elderberry bush, red buckeye, marsh sunflower, rattlesnake […]