Name/Title
Newspaper ClippingEntry/Object ID
2022.1.116Scope and Content
A laminated document containing two pieces of a St. Joseph News-Press article written by Ray Scherer about the St. Joseph Museum Indian artifacts. It is dated March 29, 2008.Context
A picture at the top is of Sarah Elder (curator of collections) as she removed a pair of American Indian moccasins from a display case at the St. Joseph Museum to prepare them for loan to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
The article is titled "Artifacts headed south. St. Joseph Museum Inc. to loan items to Nelson-Atkins". The artifacts are from the Harry L. George Collection and include:
*A feather basket from the Pomo people . . .
*A pair of masks and a single mask that are Alaskan Eskimo . . .
(continued on another page of the article)
* Two women's boots from Greenland . . .
* A copper mask from the Tlingit people who inhabited the northwest Pacific Coast and southern Alaska
* A copper bracelet from Tlingit that depicts a whale.
* A wooden turtle carved by the Mesquakie people of Iowa.Dimensions
Dimension Notes
8.5" x 14"