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Cosmic Curiosities

“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them,
but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
- Leo Burnett, American Advertising Executive

Average Star?

Miniature Canoe, Potawatomi

Collected by S.A. Barrett at Laona, Wisconsin, 1917. MPM E23266/6140

Twine, Potawatomi

Collected by S.A. Barrett at Laona, Wisconsin, 1917. MPM E23396/6140

Berlo, Janet C. 1984. Teotihuacan Art Abroad: A Study of Metropolitan Style and Provincial Transformation in Incensario Workshops. BAR International Series 199. Oxford.

de Borhegyi, Stephan F. 1957. Report on Summer Activities. Oklahoma Anthropological Society Newsletter VI(3):4-7.

_______. 1958. Report on the 1958 Summer Activities in Guatemala. MS, Department of Anthropology, Milwaukee Public Museum.

Anderson, Lee
The History of American Indian Jewelry. http://www.americana.net/jewelry_history_article.html

Fabila, Alfonso
1945La Tribu Kickapoo de Coahuila. Biblioteca Enciclopedia Popular, no. 50. Secretaria de Educacion Popular, Mexico.

Ichthyology (fishes) collection is the largest in the department with about 685,000 catalogued specimens in over 35,000 lots and representing more than 2000 species and 300 families. The majority of the collection is Wisconsin freshwater fishes (29,000 lots), but more than 26 U.S. states and 15 countries are represented.

To date, 13 underwater archaeological sites have been found and all but one are in the northern half of the lake. Evidence of ancient agricultural terraces is evident on the hills of the northern and southern shores of Lake Amatitlán, and several Maya archaeological sites have been identified on the shores as well. The order and type of ceramic styles found at a site can provide clues to its age.

The Ho-Chunk are a Siouan-speaking people whose presence in present-day Wisconsin was known to the French at Quebec as early as 1616.

According to oral tradition, they originated at Red Banks, generally assumed to be a site on the Door Peninsula on Green Bay, where they were located at the time of French contact in the 17th century. Their language is related to the Chiwere branch of Siouan that includes the Ioway, Oto, and Missouria, who acknowledge having broken off from the Ho-Chunk and moved west.

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Little is known about the history of Trinidad or Tobago before Christopher Columbus landed on their shores in 1498.  By the 1300s, the island was largely populated by Arawak and Carib Indian populations, of which little physical trace remains.  These populations were largely wiped out under the Spanish encomienda system, which pressured Indians to convert to Christianity and labor as slaves on Spanish Mission lands in exchange for “protection”.