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Contemporary Furniture From The Powers Family

From Hell Week to Homecoming: Campus Life at WT, 1953-1971
Wet Paint: Art Acquisitions Since 2000
A New England Family Goes West: Bugbee Clothing and Textiles
Always WT: A Review of the University's First Century
On, On Buffaloes: West Texas A&M University Sports
STONES AND BONES FROM THE COLLECTION
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August 22, 2009—January 24, 2010

The Archeology Department highlights spectacular rocks and minerals including large examples of petrified wood, meteorites, and obsidian acquired since opening.  In addition, it will explore the wondrous beauty and diversity of fossil and recent animal bones.  Visitors will see a metal arrowhead imbedded in a bison bone, the skull and jaws of an extremely large fossil bear-dog, and rare or unusual natural history
specimens collected since the Museum opened.

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Texas Beyond History

eSkeletons


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