Dirk - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/dirk/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:40:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Dirk - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/dirk/ 32 32 103504436 Native American Heritage Month https://houstonnewmedia.org/native-american-heritage-month/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=native-american-heritage-month Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:40:05 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=31843 November is Native American Heritage Month. As the Houston Museum of Natural Science prepares its new permanent installation, the John P. McGovern Hall of the Americas, we want to make every month Native American Heritage month. One of the main thrusts...

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]]> 206753 Remembering the Past: 13 August 1521 https://houstonnewmedia.org/remembering-the-past-13-august-1521/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remembering-the-past-13-august-1521 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:12:06 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=31769 Every year, from September 15 through October 15, people celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. Let us remember that this year, 2021, marks the 500th anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitlan, the Mexica capital. A modern inscription mar...

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]]> 168642 From the Curator: Ancestors Lurking in the Shadows https://houstonnewmedia.org/from-the-curator-ancestors-lurking-in-the-shadows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-the-curator-ancestors-lurking-in-the-shadows Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:30:00 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=31047 Science tracks down the presence of elusive early humans. In the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s display on human evolution, there is a backlit mural representing our family tree. It goes back to 55 million years ago, and takes us all the way up to...

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]]> 78067 From Our Collections: Lucy is in the Building https://houstonnewmedia.org/from-our-collections-lucy-is-in-the-building/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-our-collections-lucy-is-in-the-building Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:10:34 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=31013 Those who are frequent visitors to the Morian Hall of Paleontology might have noticed that a familiar face has reappeared. The very last section of the exhibit hall now shows a life-sized version of a female Australopithecus afarensis. Not just any afa...

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]]> 71008 The First American Revolution of 1680 https://houstonnewmedia.org/the-first-american-revolution-of-1680/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-first-american-revolution-of-1680 Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:52:02 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=30977 August 10 marks the anniversary of the Pueblo Revolt against the Spaniards. This took place in 1680 and resulted in the expulsion of the Spanish presence for a period of twelve years. The consequences of this revolt continue to today. New Mexico is hom...

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]]> 67049 From Our Collections: a Manangya katsina https://houstonnewmedia.org/from-our-collections-a-manangya-katsina/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-our-collections-a-manangya-katsina Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:00:00 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=30953 Kachina dolls are familiar Native American museum objects. They appear in art galleries and anthropology exhibits alike, but they are often misrepresented, misidentified, and misunderstood. Even the term kachina leads to confusion; it is an Anglicized ...

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]]> 65283 From our Collections: Bee Mask from the Amazon https://houstonnewmedia.org/from-our-collections-bee-mask-from-the-amazon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-our-collections-bee-mask-from-the-amazon Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:22:43 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=30925 The anthropology holdings of the Houston Museum of Natural Science include an extensive collection of ethnographic materials from South America, to be precise, from the Amazon and Orinoco River basins. These basins cover an area of 2.5 million square m...

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]]> 63478 From our Collections: Lakota Beaded Possible Bag https://houstonnewmedia.org/from-our-collections-lakota-beaded-possible-bag/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-our-collections-lakota-beaded-possible-bag Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:23:12 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=30906 Among the Houston Museum of Natural Science’ collections of Plains Indian materials we find a Lakota beaded possible bag. The Lakota people are part of a confederation of seven related Sioux tribes, the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ or “Seven Council Fires.”  T...

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]]> 60274 Maya Writing | How Ancient Texts Connect Us to People of the Past https://houstonnewmedia.org/maya-writing-how-ancient-texts-connect-us-to-people-of-the-past/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maya-writing-how-ancient-texts-connect-us-to-people-of-the-past Tue, 05 May 2020 20:52:16 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=30733 When we survey the field of pre-Contact indigenous cultures in the Americas, the ancient Maya are by far the one we know the most about. Like other cultures, the Maya have left us a very rich archaeological record. We can excavate and investigate their...

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