 | Washakie Museum offers
its visitors an opportunity to relate to the living environment of the early settlers from
thousands of years ago to 100 years ago. Exhibits, including a major historical
photography collection, and learning programs relating to the art, history, geology,
archaeology and paleontology of the region are featured at the museum, as well as musical
and theatrical events.
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| The "Please Touch" exhibits offer
fun for both children and adults. The art exhibits change regularly.
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| There are rooms devoted
to pioneer life, including a covered wagon, sheep wagon and sod house; the Sheepeater
Shoshone room features a moon lodge (left); a fascinating recreated Big Horn Mountain rock
shelter highlights petroglyphs and pictographs; there are fossils, including important
rodent jaw and teeth fragments, Coryphodon and Hyracotherium or Eohippus from the Willwood
formation, the Meeteetse Hadrosaur and fossilized flora and fauna from Big Cedar Ridge; as
well as rocks and minerals; a bison skull displays, one of which is the c.9050+ years old;
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| The museum is also the home of
the artifacts of the Spring Creek and Daugherty Caves, and the world famous prehistoric
Colby and Horner Site artifacts excavated by Dr. George Frison. The c.11,200 year
old Colby site (one of the largest and oldest kill sites known) is a Paleoindian Columbian
mammoth kill site and meat cache found with projectile points and is the earliest evidence
of man's existence on the continental United States. The Horner Site is the best
evidence of a Paleoindian Bison kill site from 9,000-10,000 years ago. You can visit
the Washakie Museum website at http://w3.trib.com/~wmuseum.
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WORLAND-TEN SLEEP
VISITOR'S COUNCIL
120 North 10th St., Worland, WY 82401
307-347-3226 ~ E-mail: wacc@trib.com
 
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