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collection & exhibitions


Special Exhibitons
The Great Search for Energy
Stones And Bones From The Collection
A Running Fight: Red River War
in Art

Better Dressing Through Chemistry: Petrochemical Fibers

Remembering The Alamo,
1836-2009

Contemporary Furniture From The Powers Family

A New England Family Goes West: Bugbee Clothing and Textiles
Always WT: A Review of the University's First Century
On, On Buffaloes: West Texas A&M University Sports
Bringing Up Baby: Children's Furniture through the Years
From Hell Week to Homecoming: Campus Life at WT, 1953-1971
Panhandle Plains Invitational
Wet Paint: Art Acquisitions Since 2000
A KIOWA'S ODYSSEY: A SKETCHBOOK FROM FORT MARION
 
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March 29 – June 30, 2008

This 32-page sketchbook of drawings by the Kiowa warrior Etahdleuh Doanmoe chronicle the experience of seventy-two Comanche, Kiowa, Arapaho, and Caddo who were captured at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, in 1875 during uprisings associated with the Plains Wars. To stem further uprisings, the Indian prisoners were exiled to Ft. Marion, Florida. Under the direction of Lt. Richard Henry Pratt, they were made to adopt Western values, appearance, behavior, language, and beliefs. Etahdleuh’s drawings illustrate the capture of the Indians, their passage to Florida, and their time at Fort Marion.