2018 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award

Samantha Bomkamp is the 2018 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. During the 2018 Spring Semester she worked with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s (MPM) Casas Grandes collection from Chihuahua, Mexico.  While the collection includes a variety of items such as shell jewelry, ceramic vessels and figurines, an axe, spindle whorls, agates, and potsherds, Samantha’s research focused on over 80 of the whole, mostly whole, or reconstructed vessels that date between the Viejo and Tardio periods (700-1660 A.D.).… Continue Reading »