Early Technology Day at the Iroquois Museum - 5 October 2021

The Iroquois Museum announces its last 2021 event, “Early Technology Day, on Saturday, October 16 from 10 to 4.  Visitors can watch and participate in the process of flint knapping (the ancient art of making chipped stone tools), fire making, cordage making, atlatl spear throwing and early archery.  There will be displays of projectile points, tools, and local archaeological finds from the Museum’s archaeology department.  Think you've found an artifact? Please bring it with you and the Museum’s experts will be glad to try to identify it for you.

Starting November 1st, the Iroquois Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. For more information about the Museum visit www.iroquoismuseum.org.

ABOUT THE IROQUOIS INDIAN MUSEUM

The Iroquois Indian Museum is an independent nonprofit cultural museum founded in Schoharie County, NY in 1981. It houses the largest collection of contemporary Iroquois art in the world and offers a window into Iroquois culture and history through archaeology, visual arts, and performing arts. The 7,300 square-foot facility inspired by the traditional Iroquois longhouse presents changing and permanent exhibits, the Children’s Museum, and the Museum Shop, which features hand-crafted Iroquois art, silver, and leatherwork. The museum is surrounded by a 45-acre Nature Park, two 19th-century log houses formerly on the Six Nations Reserve, and a 500-seat outdoor covered amphitheater.