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South Florida's Native American
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This delicate carving of a bird on
bone, found at the Pineland site, will be on display in the gallery.
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The Legacy Gallery presents some of the most rare and interesting objects in our South Florida collections. These include a 1000-year-old hand-carved wooden panel with a painting of the now-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, a wooden panel with a painted alligator, wooden figurines of animals and humans, ornaments made from precious metals, and numerous other carved wooden and bone objects. Interpretive panels discuss South Florida sites of special significance, including the remarkable "wet sites" that can yield detailed information when excavated with care and when recovered objects are appropriately treated. A multimedia interactive further explains the process of properly preserving and caring for wet-site materials.
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This painting of a woodpecker, about 1,000 years
old from Marco Island, will be on display in the Legacy Gallery.
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Museum artisans Tom Kyne and Bob Leavy test the
specially designed mount that will hold a wooden bird sculpture
in place.
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Museum fabricators Stan Blomeley and Nathan Bruce
test the climate control equipment that will protect displayed artifacts
by maintaining a constant relative humidity inside the exhibit cases.
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Design Assistant Arturo Escamilla
and Lead Designer Dorr Dennis experiment with fiber-optic lighting,
using mockups of artifacts to be displayed in the Legacy Gallery.
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