Man’s Long Shirt

Man’s Long Shirt

The Museum’s first Director, Thompson Van Hyning, purchased this long shirt from Seminole Chief Tony Tommie in the 1920s. Chief…
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carved metal with two holes near the center and another larger one at one end. Faint carved lines create a design on the metal

Copper Medallion

Native Floridians recovered various metals from European shipwrecks off Florida’s coasts and re-fashioned the metal into objects and ornaments using…
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Basket with wide base and narrower neck woven with blue, red, green, orange and light blue thread. Simple designs woven from the blue, red, and orange thread decorate the basket.

Coiled Sweetgrass Basket

Early Seminoles made traditional baskets from split saw palmetto stems, but introduced sweetgrass baskets in the early 20th century to…
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long narrow wood carving, one end is a sharp narrow point the other wide and rounded with carved lines and carved holes near the base

Carved Crane Head

This object is on permanent display in the Museum’s South Florida People & Environments exhibit, located in the “Native American…
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Songbird Bell Jar

Songbird Bell Jar

Beautifully arranged specimens inside delicate bell jars were once a common display method in museums or even private homes. Charles…
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Spanish Pitcher (reconstruction)

Spanish Pitcher

Most pottery uncovered during excavations is in fragments. If archaeologists find multiple pieces of the same pot, they can reconstruct…
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Spanish Book Clasps

Spanish Book Clasps

Books and recordkeeping were important in Spanish colonial daily life, but evidence is rare at archaeological sites. These books clasps…
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Glass Vial from Columbia Co, Florida

Glass Vial

Archaeologists rarely find delicate objects intact. This glass vial from the Fig Springs Mission site likely held sacramental oils. Only…
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