Blaine County Museum Memo

December is shaping up to be a great month over here at the museum! On Wednesday December 6th we put on a “parfleche workshop” for 28 area kids in conjunction with the wonderful folks over at the Blaine County Library. The parfleche workshop was an interactive program where kids were able to learn about the history and importance of parfleche: a versatile and beautiful painted rawhide container used by many Indigenous Peoples. At the conclusion of a short talk and slideshow, kids were given their own pieces of actual rawhide and were able to craft their own mini-parfleche Christmas ornaments....