Crafting Tools the American Indian Way

The MARC invites you to learn something new about American Indian culture, try your hand at crafting one of the important tools of American Indian life and help us add something special to our American Indian exhibits during this three session workshop on net-making. Attend any or all of the sessions.

 Donna Atkins, an area artisan who produces beautiful and useful reproductions of tools used by American Indians in our region, will demonstrate and supervise the process from wrapping bark and other natural materials into cordage to assembling a working fishing net. The finished net will be put on display at the MARC to help visitors imagine a different way of life.