Word: exhibit
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Staff members at the Peabody Museum are arranging buffalo robes and giving display cases a final dusting in preparation for the April 4th opening of a new exhibit on Native Americans...
...exhibit, called "Change and Continuity," will be the largest display of Native American artifacts in any university museum, said Ian W. Brown, assistant director of the museum. It examines the effects of European contact on Native American culture, he said, and opens in conjunction with a Peabody display of artifacts from Meriwether Lewis' and William Clark's expedition...
...There are approximately 500 objects, ranging from little shellfish hooks to totem poles," said Brown, adding that the Lewis and Clark exhibit featured 70 to 100 more pieces...
...Peabody Museum has specialized in Native American culture since its inception in 1867, said Brown. But storage renovations in the early 1980s closed the previous exhibit, and the new Native American display is significantly larger than its predecessor, said Brown...
...exhibit we've been working on for almost six years now," said Brown...