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This year marked the 6th anniversary of Carter County Museum's Dino Shindig. Numbers at the event continue to grow each year, as 480 people attended the talks and children's activities on Saturday, up from 434 last year. Sixty people took in a history and science program at Medicine Rocks on Sunday. Meanwhile, 61 dig participants worked to remove a femur and collected prehistoric leaves in a Hadrosaur quarry. New events like the sister museum and schoolhouse gallery show on Fr...
The annual Dino Shindig, named Montana's Event of the Year by the Office of Tourism and Business Development, is set to take place this weekend in Ekalaka. Visitors will be in town from all over the world to hear lectures from leading paleontologists, partake in kids activities, and dance the night away. Beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, kid's can check out an array of activities on the museum lawn. Some of these activities include a fossil dig pit, face painting, arts and...
In conjunction with the 2018 Carter County Museum Dino Shindig, Montana State Parks will host a science and history gathering at Medicine Rocks State Park on Sunday, July 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The gathering will include: 10 a.m. - Franco Littlelight: “Song of the Dawn Priests: A History of the Crow People” 11 a.m. - Thomas Holtz: “The Geology of Medicine Rocks State Park” 11:30 a.m. - Amy Atwater: “Paleontology and the Mammals of the Fort Union Formation” Noon - Nature Hike with Park Ranger Tom Shoush This program wil...
In the interest of communicating with the community, the Carter County Museum has included a flyer in this week's Eagle to share our economic and educational impact in 2017. First, we would like to thank our visitors, donors and volunteers for helping us make 2017 a record year. Thanks to you all, we increased our attendance by 28 percent for a total of 4,895 people. Local attendance – visitors from Carter County – rose by 10 percent. Of that number, 3,444 came to the cou...
Last Wednesday, October 11, was National Fossil Day, and the Carter County Museum celebrated by inviting classes from Carter County High School. Students from the math, science, and agriculture classes spent time at the museum learning about fossil collections – following a lab plan set up by Chioko Hammel, Sharon Carroll, and Seth Whitney. This collaboration helps highlight the comprehensive nature of the collections here – not only do we have dinosaurs, but we also have an...
U.S. SENATE -Last Friday U.S. Senator Steve Daines recognized the Carter County Museum. The Carter County Museum has helped preserve the history of eastern Montana for over eighty years, and was the first county museum in the state. Through his "Montanan of the Week" initiative, Daines each week will highlight a Montanan by submitting a statement of recognition in the official Congressional Record, the document that reflects the official proceedings of Congress. Daines...
A Bozeman man was fishing the Powder River in the early summer of 2016 when he stumbled upon what he believed to be a mammoth. That man, who wishes to remain anonymous, knew about Carter County Museum (CCM)-in part because of its sister relationship with Museum of The Rockies-and made a call. Nathan Carroll, CCM curator, was pretty excited about that call. After contacting landowner Lee Randall, Carroll had to wait until the river was low enough, around Mid-August, to get a...
The Dino Shindig continues to grow each year. It has become one of the largest events of the year in Ekalaka, bringing dino enthusiasts and tourists from all over the U.S. This year marked the 5th anniversary of the event held each July in Ekalaka. Each year, more has been added to the slate of events, and each year, more and more people are coming to Ekalaka. In 2014, about 250 people visited the museum over the three days surrounding the shindig. This year, 434 people...
Montana State Parks (stateparks.mt.gov) will host a celebration marking the 60th Anniversary of Medicine Rocks State Park on Sunday, July 30th from 10am to 2pm at the park. All are invited to celebrate this special anniversary where they will enjoy interpretive presentations highlighting the history of the park including “The Geology of Medicine Rocks” by Thomas Holtz, Arch Ellwein as Teddy Roosevelt, and “Petroglyphs of Medicine Rocks” with Tim Urbaniak. The day will conclude with a performance by The Pryor Mountain Boys, C...
Back in March, Carter County Museum (CCM) was recognized at the Montana Governor's Conference and the Dino Shindig was named Event of the Year by Montana's Office of Tourism and Event Development. Last week, the museum won big again. Red Ants Pants, a Montana company that makes workwear clothing for women, was founded by Sarah Calhoun in 2006. In 2011, Calhoun started the Red Ants Pants Foundation which supports women's leadership, working family farms and ranches, and rural...
Over the past two months, we have had several class groups in to tour the museum. Some have traveled as far as Camp Crook and others include Baker and several grades from our own Ekalaka Elementary and high schools. For Archaeology Month, we featured our atlatl teaching collection, where students were able to use the spear thrower to hunt a mammoth and a saber-toothed cat. This month, we had the fourth grade in from Ekalaka to tour the Lambert Room and handle the Maiasaura...
The use of porcupine quills in embroidery is one of the oldest decorative traditions among American Indian tribes. The practice predates European contact by hundreds of years and was replaced gradually by glass beads brought by white traders. In the museum, we have an example of quillwork from the Sioux tribe as adornment on a pair of moccasins. Once harvested from the porcupine, quills were washed and sorted by size. Quills that are between two to three inches long are ideal...
April is Montana Archaeology Month, and to celebrate, the Carter County Museum will be bringing you a series of articles about topics in the field. Pottery is a relatively rare artifact to find and is often preserved in pieces called "sherds" in archaeological parlance. The museum has a small collection of a variety of sherds that have been traced back to the Mandan/Hidatsa and Crow Tribes. By examining pottery and other ceramics, archaeologists can discover information about...
