Castle McLaughlin
Photo courtesy of J. K. O’Donnell.
Associate Curator of North American Ethnography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University.
Social anthropologist Castle McLaughlin is Associate Curator of Native American Ethnography at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, steward of the surviving Native American objects acquired by Lewis and Clark. Her book on that collection, Arts of Diplomacy, was published in 2003, before the grizzly claw necklace was “rediscovered” in the museum. She is currently co-curating an exhibit of Plains ledger drawings with Lakota artist Butch Thunder Hawk.
Contribution
The Lewis and Clark’s bear claw necklace, recently ‘rediscovered’, is described and analyzed and suggests some of the many meanings and provocations related to it.
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- The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.
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Unless otherwise noted, journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton, 13 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983-2001).