The Union Campground Cemetery, located in the woods of northern Greene County, Missouri, was in use from 1840 to 1920. The cemetery fell into disuse after 1920, but it was rediscovered in 1992 by descendants of the people buried there; it is now maintained by the Union Campground Cemetery Association, and the cemetery continues to be visited by the descendants as well as … [Read more...] about Graves and Gravestones in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Rebecca Prado, Ashley Pitt, and Katie Kimbrough
This hand-thrown lid for a stoneware crockery vessel was excavated from Bonniebrook, the estate of American illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette Rose O’Neill, who is best-known for her invention of the Kewpie doll character. Several years after O’Neill’s death in 1944, her house at Bonniebrook burned to the ground, and curious local people … [Read more...] about Hand-Thrown Lid: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment
Xylophones are instruments that originated in West Africa by the mid-14th century, and their use subsequently spread to the central and eastern regions of Africa. The kundung xylophone was introduced to the Berom people of Nigeria by the Bagirmi people of Chad in the 1930s. While many musical traditions vanished through British colonization and the … [Read more...] about African Kundung Xylophone: Researched, Conserved, and Repaired by Ashley McLaughlin
American badgers are stocky, solitary creatures with large, sharp claws that enable them to dig burrows for their homes as well as to dig into the burrows of their prey, which include insects, rodents, and snakes. They live in grasslands, prairies, fields, and pastures from western North America to Ohio, and from the central Canadian provinces down to … [Read more...] about Taxidermy Badger: Researched and Conserved by Hannah Whaley
Beaded items are part of a long tradition in Native American art. By the late eighteenth century, the Iroquois had begun creating traditionally beaded items for the tourist market. Although such tourist items were not present in the traditional Native world, Iroquois artists quickly adapted traditional beading methods and techniques to create objects specifically for sale to … [Read more...] about Iroquois Beaded Pincushion: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Vinita Williams