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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

3/1/1977 - 5/31/1977

Funding Totals

$5,000.00 (approved)
$5,000.00 (awarded)

Design of Interpretive Archaeological Museum at Warren Wilson College

FAIN: GM-10945-77

Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC 28815-9000)
Joseph E. Shiflett (Project Director: March 1977 to present)

To complete initial planning for the design of an interpretive archaeological museum using data and artifacts from a prehistoric Cherokee excavation on the campus. Grant funds will support further research into pre-Columbian lifeways in the Appalachian Summit region and will investigate the most effective museum techniques for portraying these concepts to the general public.