
The Bison Project
The bison are scheduled to roam once again at the C.M. Russell Museum, and this time they are sticking around! The Bison: American Icon, Heart of Plains Indian Culture is a new permanent installation scheduled to open in late 2008 at the Russell Museum.
The Bison Project Facts
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Some 500 objects to appear in the exhibition will include the following categories: 19th-century Northern Plains Indian artifacts (clothing, regalia, tools, and weapons); bison hides, horns, bones, teeth; two and three-dimensional artworks (paintings, sculpture, prints, historic photographs, etc.) by Euro-American and Indian artists from the 19th and 20th centuries; 19th and 20th-century photographs of American Indians; a wide variety of non-Native objects utilizing bison imagery (such as U.S. currency and State flags); and a number of functional objects (such as hat racks) made from bison hide or horn.
