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Today at the Museum

June 20, 2013
SPECIAL EVENT

Third Thursday: Get Local

6 – 9 p.m.
museum-wide

TUNE IN to our new music partnership with 89.3 The Current at the debut of "Local Current Live at Third Thursday" with DJ David Campbell. HEAR LOCAL band more »
Exhibition

Clockwise from upper left: Cradle Board (Northern Arapaho, 2003), Plastic Doll (Africa, 20th century), Female Doll (Lakota, 20th century), Moccasins (Oglala Lakota, 1900), Doll (Chad, 19th century), Pair of Child’s Moccasins (Apsaalooka, c. 1880).

Play and Ceremony: Cherished Items for Children

Thursday, July 3, 2008—Sunday, September 13, 2009
Family Center Gallery
Free Exhibition

This exhibition features cherished items for children including dolls, moccasins, and toys—objects that have played an important role in the ceremonial and daily life of Native Americans and Africans for generations.