Chief White Horse’s Winter Count is foundation of new museum exhibit

Grand opening is Sunday, June 25

  • White Horse today If Chief Martin White Horse could look down from his burial place atop a hill this is the view of the White Horse community he would see today. White Horse died in 1915, leaving a winter count that was passed down in his family for many years. His oral history was told to Florence Thwing with Harvey Left Handed Bear as interpreter in 1910.
    White Horse today If Chief Martin White Horse could look down from his burial place atop a hill this is the view of the White Horse community he would see today. White Horse died in 1915, leaving a winter count that was passed down in his family for many years. His oral history was told to Florence Thwing with Harvey Left Handed Bear as interpreter in 1910.
  • ABOVE: The White Horse Winter Count is in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and replicas have been shared with the Timber Lake and Area Museum and CRST Cultural Preservation Office. The winter count serves as the focal point of a new exhibit at the Museum, which opens Sunday, June 25. RIGHT: The images White Horse drew on the muslin winter count in the last five years of his life, 1911-1915.
    ABOVE: The White Horse Winter Count is in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and replicas have been shared with the Timber Lake and Area Museum and CRST Cultural Preservation Office. The winter count serves as the focal point of a new exhibit at the Museum, which opens Sunday, June 25. RIGHT: The images White Horse drew on the muslin winter count in the last five years of his life, 1911-1915.
  • Chief Martin White Horse
    Chief Martin White Horse
  • Chief White Horse’s Winter Count is foundation of new museum exhibit
    Chief White Horse’s Winter Count is foundation of new museum exhibit
    The grand opening of the new White Horse Winter Count exhibit at the Timber Lake and Area Museum will be held Sunday, June 25. The museum, located at 802 Main Street in Timber Lake, will open at noon MT and a program will begin at 2:00 MT. The public is invited. Over the past year and a half, the Timber Lake and Area Museum has redesigned its Native American exhibit using the White Ho...

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