Donations Archives - Fort Osage National Historic Landmark https://fortosagenhs.com/tag/donations/ The Society of Friends of Fort Osage Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:31:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://fortosagenhs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-New-FOFO-logo-edit-32x32.jpg Donations Archives - Fort Osage National Historic Landmark https://fortosagenhs.com/tag/donations/ 32 32 Fort Osage Receives Garter Donation https://fortosagenhs.com/2015/10/fort-osage-receives-garter-donation/ Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:22:27 +0000 https://fortosagenhs.com/?p=273

The Society of Friends of Fort Osage purchased these garters in the Grand Festival of Chez les Canses auction and donated them to the fort. The garters were made by Clarence Warfield and are copied from a pair in the Peabody Museum at Harvard. William Clark had received a pair as a gift from the Osage.John Peterson, the Museum Curator at Fort Osage National Historic Landmark, said that they will be added to the Osage…

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]]> Fort Osage Receives Fabric Donation https://fortosagenhs.com/2014/09/fort-osage-receives-fabric-donation/ Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:15:57 +0000 https://fortosagenhs.com/?p=271

William Clark was appointed as US Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Saint Louis after the famous Lewis & Clark expedition. In a letter written in 1810, he requested cloth similar to the five fabric samples he had enclosed to be used as gifts for the tribes of Upper Missouri. The original fabrics now reside at the Museum of the Fur Trade, but two reprints of this fabric have just been donated to Fort Osage! Be…

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