“Treasures from a Moravian Attic: Native American Objects from the Wachovia Historical Society”
“Treasures from a Moravian Attic: Native American Objects from the Wachovia Historical Society Collection” features Native American archaeological and ethnographic objects from North Carolina and across North America recently donated to the Museum of Anthropology.
The Wachovia Historical Society and the Missionary Society of the Moravian Church South, Inc. donated more than 20,000 objects to the Museum of 
Anthropology in early 2005. The donation includes many spectacular Native American objects collected by explorers, archaeologists, and Moravian missionaries. In celebration of the donation, the Museum of Anthropology is exhibiting some of the most exceptional ethnographic objects, many of which have not been seen before.
The exhibit focuses on the stories of 19th and 20th century collectors, descriptions of peoples and places they visited, and how their objects came to be in the possession of the Wachovia Historical Society. Among the Native American objects featured are those collected by:
- Rev. John Kilbuck, a member of the Delaware tribe who was a Moravian missionary to the Yupik in Bethel, Alaska during the late 19th and early 20th centuries;
- John Wesley Powell, 19th century explorer of the Grand Canyon, who gave collections to the Smithsonian Institution; and
- Augustus Fogle, Mayor of Salem, who traveled to New Spring Place, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1854 to visit the Moravian mission to the Western Cherokee.
Please visit the "Treasures from a Moravian Attic" children's virtual exhibit, based on a project by Laura Bullins done for the Fall 2005 "Applied Anthropology" class.
