The Plains Indian Museum: The Installation

Exterior of Standing Bear’s Reservation House.

Interior of the earth lodge video theatre.

Blackfeet warriors overlooking Blackfeet tipi camp in Seasons of Life Gallery.

Visitor looking at interpretive family album inside of Standing Bear&#8217;s Reservation House.

Dress, Plateau, ca. 1915. Brain-tanned deer hide, glass beads, cowrie shells, brass bells. Simplot Collection, Gift of J.R. Simplot

Exterior of the earth lodge with a spring evening sky overhead.

Encounters Gallery

Ghost Dance artifact case.

Women’s Societies artifact case.

Bull boat in Blackfeet tipi camp.

Looking into the Land of Many Gifts Gallery.

Sundance and Warriors, Leaders and Healers cases.

Arapaho and Shoshone of Wind River is the current exhibition featured in this gallery through December 2001.

Artifact cases featured in the Arapaho and Shoshone of Wind River special exhibition.

Introductory panel to the Adversity & Renewal gallery. Victoria Has The Eagle and great-grandchild. Ken Blackbird, Nakota (Assiniboine), 1993.

Man&#8217;s Shirt, Upper Missouri region, Montana or North Dakota, 1835. Deer hide, buffalo hide, porcupine quills, pigment, glass pony beads. Chandler-Pohrt Collection.

Shirt Owned by Red Cloud, 1870&#8217;s, Lakota (Sioux). Deer hide, horse and human hair, wool, seed beads, porcupine quills, pigment. Adolf Spohr Collection, Gift of Larry Sheerin.

Bow Case & Quiver, Absaroke (Crow), Northern Plains, ca. 1875. Otter hide, wool cloth, glass beads, pigment. Adolf Spohr Collection, Gift of Larry Sheerin.

Entrance to Honor and Celebration Gallery. Fancy Dancer at the Milk River Indian Days Celebration, Ft. Belknap Reservation, Montana. Ken Blackbird, Nakota (Assiniboine), 1991.

Overhead view of the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Migration Scene leading into the Buffalo and The People gallery.

Entrance to the Buffalo and The People gallery.

Powow Dance Arbor in Honor and Celebration gallery. Arbor features Plains Indian Museum Powwow videao footage and artifacts cases. Photo by Chris Gimmeson.