SYRACUSE - A program displaying some of Indiana's pre-historic and historic Indian artifacts will take place at Celebration Hall Wednesday at 7 p.m.
The hall is in the Syracuse Community Center, 1013 N. Long Drive, Syracuse.
The Syracuse-Wawasee Historical Museum is sponsoring the event. All interested residents are invited. The program is free and open to the public.
Jim and Eve Bickel, Huntington, along with their daughter, Michelle Edington, a sixth-grade teacher in the West Noble School System, will give the program. Michelle's husband, Dr. Tom Edington, is the Wawasee School Corp. superintendent.
The Bickels have been studying and collecting Indian artifacts for more than 50 years. They have given programs in all areas of Indiana for the past 25 years.
"We plan to bring artifacts and information on pre-historic people that inhabited this area during the Paleo and Archaic archaeological time periods. We will also have material that belonged to Indians in the late 1800s," said Jim Bickel.
Many of the Indian artifacts to be displayed are from the northern part of Indiana.
"We have artifacts that belonged to the first people that entered our continent some 12,000 years ago, as well as artifacts that belonged to the Great Miami Chief Little Turtle and his granddaughter, Kil-so-qua," according to Bickel.
On display will be moccasins and a little shirt made by the Miami princess Kil-so-qua, who lived in Roanoke at the turn of the last century.Door prizes will be awarded, and children will receive an authentic broken arrowhead and an Apache tear.
After the program, one Indian artifact per person will be appraised, identified and authenticated free of charge. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, call Eloise Kuhn, curator at the museum, at 574-457-3599.
