LENAPE INDIAN FAMILY DAY AT THE MORRIS MUSEUM

Celebrate American Indian Heritage Month at the Morris Museum’s Lenape Indian Family Day

WHEN: Saturday November 6, Noon – 4 PM
WHERE: The Morris Museum, located at 6 Normandy Heights Road (at the corner of Columbia Turnpike) in Morristown
TICKETS: free with museum admission

Enjoy an afternoon at the Morris Museum and learn about New Jersey’s first people—the Lenape Indians.

John Kraft, Creator and Director of Lenape Lifeways, will give presentations that focus on the culture of the Lenape Indians. Participants will see and hold authentic and replicated objects, including stone and bone tools, masks, pottery, clothing, musical instruments, games, and more. Mr. Kraft will be dressed in period costume (17^th century) when he discusses Lenape history and shares Lenape stories. Families will be invited to create corn husk dolls and to design a woven textile in a craft workshop run by Morris Museum educators. All activities are drop-in, throughout the afternoon.

John Kraft, Director of Lenape Lifeways, is an archaeologist and educator who has presented thousands of programs on the Lenape or Delaware Indians of New Jersey. His goal is to share with others his knowledge, enthusiasm and appreciation for the remarkable people called the “Lenape.” In his work discovering and excavating Lenape villages and artifacts, Mr. Kraft has found trade goods given to the native people by the early Dutch and English settlers, and has documented his findings about their family life, dwellings, diet, spiritual beliefs and technology. He is the author of The Indians of Lenapehoking, an educational unit on the Indians of New Jersey, and has illustrated The Lenape or Delaware Indians and other books. John Kraft has been creating museum exhibits and lecturing for over 20 years. 

About the Morris MuseumThe Morris Museum explores and celebrates the arts, sciences and humanities through exhibitions, educational programs, performing arts and special events. Founded in 1913, the museum serves over 200,000 adults and children each year.  These programs are made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Morris Museum, located at 6 Normandy Heights Road (at the corner of Columbia Turnpike) in Morristown, NJ, is open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM; Thursday, 11 AM to 8 PM; and Sunday, 1-5 PM Admission to the museum is $10 for adults and $7 for children, students and senior citizens. Admission is free for museum members and is free to the public every Thursday between 5 and 8 PM. For more information, call 973.971.3700, or visit www.morrismuseum.org.