History Exhibits

The Oshkosh Public Museum has compiled six exhibits containing historic photographs, documents, and artifacts from our collections. Their presentation here has been made possible through a contribution from the federal Teaching American History Grant Project administered jointly by Cooperative Educational Service Agency No. 6, located in Oshkosh, and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's Department of History. Click Here to view.


Archeology Exhibits

The Lasleys Point bone and antler artifacts were examined and classified by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh interns, Rebecca Orlowski and August Perry. Our work was conducted during the 2007 spring semester. Only modified bone and antler from Kannenberg's excavations were analyzed. We are indebted to Victoria Dirst and her work, "Three Classic Oneota Sites in East Central Wisconsin." University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 1985., which we used as the typology while classifying artifacts.
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Anthropogy Exhibits

The Oshkosh Public Museum pipe collection includes examples of many different styles of pipes ranging in age from the first centuries BC to the 20th century. They are representative of the evolution of Native American pipes from simple tubes to elaborately decorated calumets. Within the collection are pre-contact styles that have been found over wide geographic regions indicative of the diffusion of beliefs, customs, artifact types and people. When Europeans encountered American Indians and learned of their use of tobacco, they not only began the practice of smoking tobacco themselves but also mass produced pipes for trade with Native Americans. Click Here to view