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Uncovering history: Frisco Heritage Museum unveils latest exhibit
By Elizabeth Knighten , eknighten@starlocalnews.com
On Wednesday, the Frisco Heritage Museum opened its newest temporary art collection, "Quanah Parker, Last Chief of the Comanches-Photography Exhibit."
Pete Hosp, Heritage Center Coordinator for the city said, the museum held a private showing on opening night for city and other organizations.
Susanne Kerley, a volunteer with the museum said the exhibit features the lives of Quanah Parker and his wife Cynthia Ann Parker.
"We have a photo exhibit which is a traveling exhibit from the Texas Lakes Trail of the Texas Historical Commission," Kerley said. "It's narrative and photograph, then we also have artifacts from the collection of Doug Harmon from the Native Americans of Texas."
Some of the artifacts that will be displayed at the event include beaded clothing, a buffalo scull, arrowheads, a stone axe, a Native American war bonnet and antique rifles and pistols.
The exhibit, which includes hundreds of artifacts, has been under production since 2011, when the museum started collecting artifacts. Kerley said the museum was initially contacted by the Texas Lakes Trail who informed the museum of its traveling exhibit.
"These are all items here on loan and we'll be here for the six weeks of the exhibit and we have been getting these things together for several months," Kerley said.
Other contributors to the exhibit include the International Museum of Cultures as well as a Frisco family that has loaned some of their artifacts to the exhibit.
Hosp said there are posters with information on Quanah Parker throughout the museum.
"It's an educational exhibit and the story of Cynthia Parker's life and Quanah Parker's influence in his lifetime," Kerley said. "Which was he was a statesman and a cattleman and an influential person in both his Native American culture and his Anglo culture."
Kerley said the museum is "very proud" to have the opportunity to educate Texans on the stories of the state including that of Quanah Parker.
"It's to help the people in Frisco to understand more about our inclusion in the whole history of Texas," Kerley said. "The Quanah Parker story is a story for Texas and so many of our residents here in Frisco these days have come from other parts of the United States any maybe don't know the stories that Texas has to tell.
The exhibit will run through May 27 and costs $4 for adults and $2 for children.
"It's an opportunity to see these artifacts and photographs all in one place that have never been put together exactly like this before," Kerley said.
For more info, go to www.friscomuseum.com
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