The Heritage Museum and Cultural Center (formerly Fort Miami Heritage Society) is offering, for sale or loan, its award-winning, professionally designed and fabricated exhibit, Shared Waters:  Natives and French Newcomers on the Great Lakes.  Winner of the 2004 Best Exhibit of the Year from the Michigan State University’s Center for Great Lakes Culture, Shared Waters explores the remarkable first encounters between Native Americans and French explorers and traders in the Great Lakes region.  The exhibit features: 

  -28 thematic panels with interpretive text and related historic and contemporary images.  Sizes vary but most of the panels measure five feet tall by four feet wide
  -6 additional panels chronicling the shipwreck LaBelle and Rene-Robert de La Salle’s ill-fated attempt to establish a trade colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River and link the Great Lakes fur trade with the Gulf of  Mexico
  -4 large photo murals depicting Great  Lakes landscapes and providing visual environmental context
  -A full-size birch bark canoe built by hand using traditional Native American construction methods and materials
  -Hands-on objects including a beaver pelt, raccoon pelt, muskrat pelt, woolen “four-point” trade blanket and a full-size replica of a fur bale
  -A educational lending kit filled with a 120-page curriculum guides, videos, books, and other hands-on objects
     
Panels were designed by Project Arts & Ideas, Dearborn, Michigan and produced by Fruland & Bowles, Inc.
     
For costs and photos of the exhibit panels, email [log in to unmask]



                                                    
 
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