Museum Collections Research and Access Projects
Click here to visit the Ethnology @ SNOMNH weblog where you can learn about, or share knowledge about, objects curated in the collections of the Department of Ethnology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. (Click here for a brief overview of the project here on this site.)
Completed in 2009, the One Hundred Summers project was an IMLS funded book and curriculum project focused on presenting and interpreting a recently discovered pictorial calendar history created by the Kiowa artist Silver Horn and making it available for use as a K-12 teaching resource for Oklahoma teachers, as well as to Kiowa community members, scholars and general audiences. Learn more about the project here.
Beyond Oklahoma
In addition to OCDI projects, which by their nature, focus primarily on the cultures and culture history of Oklahoma, the initiative’s organizers are involved in numerous other research and outreach projects, including projects in the digital humanities. Among these are:
The Fabric of Mayan Life: An Exhibit of Textiles–This digital exhibition was the first undertaken by the SNOMNH Department of Ethnology. The project was directed by Jason Jackson during his tenure as the division’s curator and the exhibition itself was curated and built by Rhonda S. Fair in 2002, while she served as a graduate research assistant in the division. The digital exhibition presents and interprets the remarkable collection of Mayan textiles assembled by the late John Pitzer on behalf of the museum. Visit the site here.
Museum Anthropology Review–Founded in February 2006, Museum Anthropology Review is an online, open access scholarly journal developed to advancing the fields of museum anthropology and material culture studies. Edited by Jason Baird Jackson and published in collaboration with the Indiana University Libraries, you can find MAR online here.
