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Mint Edition Mint Edition New Exhibit to Open in February IN THIS ISSUE: Chinese woodcutters labored in the piñon 1. New Exhibit -juniper forests between Aurora, Nevada 2. Message From the Director and Bodie and Masonic, California at the 3. Anna Bailey Mills turn of the twentieth century to provide those mining towns with cordwood and 4. Frances Humphrey Lecture Series charcoal for homes and businesses. The 5. Calendar of Events upcoming exhibition Fueling the Boom: 6. Clothing & Textile Day Camp Chinese Woodcutters in the Great Basin 7. Welcome New Members explores the lives of these immigrants and their woodcutting camps through and Editor’s Note historical and archaeological records, as 8. Contact the Museum interpreted by Professor Emily Dale of Northern Arizona University and Professor Emerita Sue Fawn Chung of UNLV, and through the fine art photography of Apollonia Morrill. These mining towns, like most nineteenth century Great Basin mining camps, were fueled and powered by piñon wood and of these Chinese Camp woodcutters were like those charcoal, and the Chinese woodcutters of Chinese loggers who worked elsewhere in the were among the estimated 2,000 men Great Basin, such as the Truckee and Dayton areas. living in 150 wood camps supplying these The artifacts in the exhibition were collected by mining camps. Robert Morrill and the late congressman Jim Santini The exhibition is arranged around five in the 1960s and 70s at nine Chinese woodcutting Above: Bodie, CA, 1908 major themes: self-sufficiency in a harsh camps in Mineral County, Nevada, high – over 7,000 environment, making a living, community feet – in the mountains in dry piñon-juniper Left: Apollonia Morrill, Chinese Camp (stump), 2015–2018; © Apollonia Morrill and recreation, health and health issues, forests. The Chinese loggers lived in cabins made of and finally, food. In many ways the lives piñon logs, with roofs of thatched willow covered Message from the Director with soil, which were set into the hillsides. They Robert Morrill in the 1960s, as well as recent fine worked twelve months of the year through the art photographs of the sites and artifacts by his What an exciting time to be part of the heat of summer and snow of the winter, using the daughter, Apollonia Morrill. Nevada State Museum! In just one year same types of axes and saws as other North The exhibit will open to the public as part of our we look forward to marking the 150th American loggers. Cutting occurred in spring, Chinese New Year Celebration on February 9, anniversary of the opening of the U.S. summer and fall, and transportation of wood and 2019. Branch Mint in Carson City in January charcoal by muleback over the mountains eight of 2020, and the first coins to be miles or more to the mining towns took place all minted on Coin Press No. 1 in year, but particularly in the winter. The piñon February of 2020. But heads up! The forests have regrown, but the thousands of “Mint 150” celebration begins hundred-year-old cut stumps remaining in the hills immediately as we commemorate the bear witness to the industry and hard work of press’s 1868 arrival, and the 1869 these Chinese wood cutters. appointment of Abraham Curry as the Among the interesting artifacts in the show are a Mint’s first superintendent. Look for well-used inkstone, indicating that someone in the our new Mint 150 program series that camps (probably the headman or leader) was able will be held on the third Saturday of to read and write Chinese. The show also features each month where we focus on a pottery bottles, jugs and jars used for importing fascinating aspect of Mint history. How foodstuffs from China, opium containers and grateful the NSM staff is for all of you, paraphernalia, animal husbandry artifacts, axes and our members, volunteers, and Friends, saws, blacksmithing tools, and artifacts used for and this opportunity to share once-in-a- “Hauling wood on burros in Bodie, CA, 1908.” Photograph amusement and games. lifetime events with you celebrating by J. Holman Buck. Nevada’s beloved Mint! Accompanying the artifact collection are Courtesy of the Nevada Historical Society. photographs of the woodcutters’ camps taken by Photos: Mina Stafford On December 15th we kicked off our 150th anniversary celebration Mint 150 of the Mint with the Coin Press Arrival party. We had a special cake and cupcakes made by the Carson High Update Culinary Arts Program. We had guests from the 1860s 2 and a busy day minting the new Abe Curry medallion. A Unique Source for the Original Bird Collection at NSM by George Baumgardener, Ph.D., studying nature at a young age. By her early Curator of Natural History teens her older brother, Vernon Bailey, who would become Chief Naturalist for the U.S. The Nevada State Museum, Carson City is Biological Survey, was collecting and preparing fortunate to hold over 230 lifelike taxidermy animal specimens for noted biologists. In his mounts of Nevada birds. The collection began unpublished account of his family, he states with 115+ specimens obtained just before or Anna “was my naturalist pupil and companion, soon after the museum’s opening in 1941 (Accession # G-19). I would imagine many people consider the art of taxidermy to be practiced almost exclusively by men. It might surprise them to know that our original bird collection was created by a woman, Mrs. Anna Bailey Mills. good wing-shot who could bring down a bird “with the certainty of an experienced hunter.” She continued to pursue these interests after marriage to John S. Mills, starting a family, and Left: Anna Bailey Mills. moving to homestead on the Sheckler District Above: Female Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and chicks, skillfully prepared by Mills, of Fallon, Nevada. Her taxidermy skills are Right: Anna Bailey Mills with her brother, Vernon Bailey. evident in the specimens she prepared for the museum. Some of these animals are still on display. I have had them examined by birders, insisting on knowing all that I knew and research ornithologists, taxidermists, and sometimes more.” He goes on to say “Anna, hunters and all agree they are quite good and now thirteen year old, was my constant lifelike. Though over 75 years old, specimens companion in trapping, hunting and making prepared by Anna Bailey Mills continue to be specimens, and soon learned to skin and enjoyed by our visitors to the Nevada State Born in Minnesota, 10 October 1872, Anna prepare birds and mammals as rapidly and more Museum and be used in our displays and Bailey acquired her interest and skills in skillfully than I could . .” He considered her a education programs. 3 Frances Humphrey Lecture Series Join us on the last Thursday of each month from 6:30 – 8:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm; $8 for adults; free for museum members & ages 17 & under Reserve a seat for each lecture 30 days in advance on our website events page: nvculture.org/nevadastatemuseumcarsoncity/events. For more info: (775) 687-4810 ext. 243. January 24, 2019 February 28, 2019 March 28, 2019 Bonanza King Boxcar Diplomacy by Jane Sweetland Women Artists of the Great Basin by Mary Lee Fulkerson by Gregory Boxcar Diplomacy is about two trains that crossed Crouch the Atlantic after WWII. “The Friendship Train” Author Mary Lee Gregory Crouch, sent by Americans to France in 1947 showcasing Fulkerson will present author of Bonanza American democracy with gifts of food. Fourteen some of the thirty-one King: John Mackay months later, in February of 1949, France women artists scattered and the Battle Over the reciprocated with a “Merci Train” filled with over 200,000 miles Greatest Riches in the thousands of gifts of gratitude. This lecture will whose challenges American West, will discuss local legend John take you back to the very beginning of the Cold became opportunities Mackay, who got his start in the United States War, when America united in a gesture of beyond their wildest as a destitute Irish immigrant brought here friendship designed to showcase what people living dreams. Opening their when he was 9 years old. Mackay grew up in in a free country could do without government studios and sharing their lives, each artist reveals New York City’s Five Points slum, came of permission or support. how this vast Great Basin brings challenge, inspiration, and vision as they boldly move forward, age amid the violent mayhem of the Jane Sweetland is a sometimes circling outside the conventional routes California Gold Rush, and rose to the full former dean and and creating art as independent and authentic as the power of his manhood in the deep, rich, and associate vice president land itself. They are indeed true originals, rooted in outrageously dangerous mines of the at California State a land of unique geography, a stew of cultures, and Comstock Lode beneath Virginia City, University Channel stories like no other. Nevada, the ultimate Old West boomtown. Islands. She has Gregory Crouch is a writer who specializes in master’s degrees in Mary Lee Fulkerson is a fourth generation adventurous and historic subjects. He is the Counseling and Writing Nevadan. Her works have been shown in author of the Comstock epic, The Bonanza and a doctorate in Education and has written three numerous galleries and photographed for national King: John Mackay and the Battle Over the Greatest books: The Other College Guide; Sons at War, and magazines. She is the author of Weavers of Tradition Riches in the American West, the World War II Boxcar Diplomacy. She has taught English and and Beauty: Basketmakers of the Great Basin, with flying adventure China’s Wings: War, Romance, history and sailed with her husband and two photographer Kathleen Curtis.
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