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January - May 2008 First Floor Gallery Logan Museum of Anthropology * * * * * This event is free and open to the public. |
Watercraft made by indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest will be featured in an exhibit at Beloit College’s Logan Museum of Anthropology. Opening on Jan. 22, Bound to the Sea: Ritual, Hunting, and Society on the Northwest Coast will be displayed in the museum’s first-floor gallery through the end of May.
The exhibition was developed by Beloit College anthropology and museum studies students. The students drew from the collections of the museum, selecting artifacts that illustrate how native people of the Pacific Northwest developed complex social and political systems. Their reliance on sea mammal hunting is explored, as is their ability to construct watercraft─such as dugout canoes─suitable for use in ocean-hunting expeditions, ritual ceremonies, and trade and communication systems.
Objects that appear in Bound to the Sea: Ritual, Hunting, and Society on the Northwest Coast include traditional hunting and fishing gear, baskets, canoe models and ritual objects.
The Logan Museum of Anthropology is a world-class teaching museum located on the grounds of the Beloit College campus. Its holdings include more than 200,000 ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, many of which are on permanent display in the museum’s first-floor gallery. The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. For more information, contact Bill Green, director of the museum, at 608-363-2119 or log on to www.beloit.edu.