New Museum of Alabama shows prehistoric residents
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Two ivory-colored tusks, each about five feet long, soar over the entry to a new exhibit opening later this week at the state archives building.
The tusks sprout from the skull of a mastodon, an extinct elephant-like animal that roamed Alabama and much of North America as recently as about 13,000 years ago.
The tusks and skull are replicas. But a fossilized mastodon tooth on display nearby is real. It's about five inches wide and was found a few years ago in Butler County. Also displayed are stone Clovis spear points found in Alabama and made more than 10,000 years ago.
Those and more than 1,200 other artifacts, along with replicas of ancient spear-throwers and other items, fill two new exhibit rooms at the archives building, one titled The Land of Alabama, the other The First Alabamians.
They were built in a $1.7 million first phase of plans for a new Museum of Alabama that will illustrate Alabama's past, from pre-history to the present, with murals, artifacts, replicas, maps and information panels.
"Visitors to the state capital need to go to a place where they can see the story of the state's history," state archives Director Ed Bridges said.
The mastodon tusks are part of an exhibit about Native American life in Alabama from about 14,000 years ago through the founding of Mobile in 1702.
A mural 16.5 feet wide and 14 feet tall, showing an expert's view of what a funeral procession at the city of Moundville would have looked like in A.D. 1350, covers much of one wall of The First Alabamians room, which covers 1,092 square feet.
Other murals illustrate other periods of life over the millennia in what is now Alabama:
An old man sharpens a knife by a fire while a child chews on flesh taken from a dead bison riddled with spears.
An elder shows a boy how to throw a spear, a hunter returns with a turkey and women use stone pots to cook.
Women use sticks to plant crops while men return from the river with a sturgeon.
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India: Revoke Restrictions On Seasonal Migration Of Gujjars
Seeking immediate intervention of Defence Minister, A K Antony, to restore all restricted pasture and dhoks located near Indo-Pak border and in Ladakh areas of Jammu and Kashmir to Gujjar and Bakerwals, the Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation today pleaded to revoke all orders restricting nomads to migrate seasonally in the state.
In a letter addressed to Union Minister the Gujjar community urged free movement of all migratory communities to the areas belongs to them since centuries.
Giving details, Foundation secretary, Dr Javaid Rahi said, “We wrote to Union Ministry of Defence to restore all pastures and dhoks bared for the tribes located on line of Control, Indo-Pakistan International Border and Ladakh areas since 1990 onwards.”
The letter reads: “In view of firing on Indo-Pak border and militancy, the armed forces in J&K had restricted the entry of Gujjars Bakerwals in few Dhoks and Pastures located near border in district like Poonch, Rajouri, Jammu, Kathua, Baramulla, Kupwara, Bandipora, Kargil and Leh Districts. All such order needs immediate revocation as the Gujjars and Bakerwals suffered a great loss to their lifestyle, economy and tribal culture.”
The letter further reads, "Since November 25, 2003 when ceasefire come into force between India and Pakistan the tension has been reduced and now this is the right time to allow Tribals to move freely in their traditional areas located in Ladakh and on International border.”
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