Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

10/1/1976 - 1/31/1977

Funding Totals

$6,000.00 (approved)
$6,000.00 (awarded)


Cultural Diversity of the North American Indian

FAIN: GM-10839-76

Haskell Indian Nations University (Lawrence, KS 66046-4800)
Don Ahshapanek (Project Director: October 1976 to present)

To develop an interpretive exhibit wherein the diversity of North American Indian cultures, both past and present, is portrayed and explained. For each of 10 cultural areas subsistence patterns, language, material culture, social organization, and ceremonial and religious life will be explored by using tangible objects obtained on loan or already processed by the applicant.