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In Grand Portage in the 1930s, Ojibwe artisans working under the Works Progress Administration handcrafted an extraordinary variety of traditional objects, including this floral pattern hooked rug. #IndigenousHeritageMonth
The squirrels on the National Mall are gorging themselves, preparing for the long, cold winter. A healthy layer of fat increases their odds of seeing the spring. Don't worry, they're experts at finding and hoarding nuts. So please, do not feed the wildlife.
Phase 1 of the Early Navajo Pastoral Landscape Project conducts an ethnoarchaeological study of a single sheepherding family, revealing shifts in traditional Navajo sheepherding practices through time. #Archaeology #Diné @looking4mutton buff.ly/4ftiB1S
Capitol Reef is hiring! There are several openings available. To learn more about the jobs and to apply, visit usajobs.gov and search for 'Torrey, UT' as the location. Open positions are Maintenance Workers, Custodian (MVO), and Archeological Technicians. NPS
Names, dates, and places are carved, painted, and even shot into the sandstone of a canyon wall at Capital Reef NP. These inscriptions—the “Pioneer Register”—record the explorers, surveyors, explorers, cowboys, area settlers, and early visitors who left their mark.
Check out our latest 3D Flythrough video of Kingsley Slave Cabin! Follow the link at youtu.be/pAZdfZHonfc. Video Description: [music] 3D point cloud of a building.
After its borders opened to European and American trade in the mid-1800s, Japan supplied great quantities of porcelain to consumers around the globe. Pieces like this late 1800s teapot found their way to soldiers and their families at Vancouver Barracks.
In traditional Hidatsa society, women constructed, owned, and maintained the earthlodge, or awadi. These elaborate structures often housed several generations of families. Take a tour of the Knife River Indian Villages reconstructed earthlodge here: ow.ly/4GKN50TSSrU
How many buttons can you count for #NationalButtonDay? Archeologists recovered an astonishing 52 buttons from the home of Sarah Whitby, a Black laundress who rented her family’s land in the late 1800s in what is now Rock Creek Park. Learn more: ow.ly/C1tF50TSSnW
The NPS and the Northern and Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, using oral history and #archeology, located the site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. Both physical and spiritual interpretations continue to enrich the archeological record at the site. #IndigenousHeritageMonh
Celebrate the joy of learning this #AmericanEducationWeek with NPS Museum Collections, available online for all to explore! Find lesson plans that connect objects to topics from agriculture to labor history and fashion/design: ow.ly/eTsx50TSRI1
National parks are tactile reminders of the values, ideals, and freedoms our veterans protect. Sites like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial also remember these individuals through the objects they, their families, and their friends leave behind, such as this baseball. #VeteransDay
Thomas Cresap was a hired ruffian, a trader, a land speculator, a farmer, and a soldier. Artifacts from his cabin at Oldtown, a waypoint and landmark for travelers including George Washington, are now rare representations of colonial life along the Potomac frontier.
Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) protects historically or archeologically significant resources from harm. One compliance project at Valley Forge divulged a Continental Army musketry or firing range now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Approximately 15% of large mammal fossils at Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument were bison. The Pleistocene wetlands and modern desert climate preserve their fossils, like molar teeth, mandible, and limb bones. #NationalBisonDay #NotArcheology #ItsOkWeAreFriends
Erosion at the Brooks River Cutbank site cannot be stopped, but it can be studied. There, deep cold-trap entry passages at one house indicates larger families lived together. Another surprise is incised pebbles etched with highly stylized human figures. #IndigenousHeritageMonth
Modern fountain pens became popular in the 1880s. Capt William Clark and Meriwether Clark, who explored the upper Missouri River and the Pacific Northwest in 1803-1806, didn't have that luxury. This feather pen below would have recorded their expedition. #NationalFountainPenDay
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Volunteers have completed transcriptions for 250k pages of Theodore Roosevelt's Papers! To celebrate of this milestone (and Teddy's upcoming birthday), we've added a new batch of letters from 1913-1914 for all the Ted Heads out there. Dive in here: crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/roug…
Check out podcasts with #archeologists about #archeology: ow.ly/CRy250T1ioK.
In the decades after the Civil War, homesteading was one way a divorced woman could acquire property and make a living. Clara Campbell's New York-manufactured perfume bottle is evidence of how women settlers imbued a remote landscape with personal and domestic comforts.
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