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The Cannes Brûlées Native American Museum is an indoor museum exhibiting a collection of traditional and contemporary artworks created by contemporary American Indian artisans from Louisiana and the Southeast. Items displayed include basketry, jewelry, tools, weapons, musical instruments, clay pottery, wood carvings, children's toys, model dwellings, paintings, moccasins, Dreamcatchers, a dugout cypress pirogue and more. The museum is part of the Rivertown Museums and located inside of the Rivertown Exhibition Hall at 415 Williams Boulevard, Kenner, LA 70062. It is open on Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Various native artists whose artworks are displayed in the museum will be on hand to demonstrate their craftworks at six special events hosted by the museum. These events will take place in Rivertown between August 2009 through June 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

To receive monthly e-mails of the Guest Artist Schedules or of upcoming events, please e-mail Museum Curator Tracy Bruno at tbruno@kenner.la.us.

The following events are made possible because of the financial support of the City of Kenner and a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH).

January 16, 2010 (Saturday) - Native American Music Day
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.00 adults, $2.50 children & seniors (Includes admission to the Native American Museum)
Feel the heartbeat of Mother Earth and the Native American people as you listen to the traditional music of the "Yellow Moon Singers" drum group. Learn how their music carries on a custom that has been passed down through generations, preserving language, history and spirituality. In addition, hear the whispering wind as a Native American flutist plays the bamboo flute and demonstrates how it is made.
April 3, 2010 (Saturday) - Hands-On Native American Crafts Day
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.00 adults, $2.50 children & seniors (Includes admission to the Native American Museum)
Get ready for a Hands-On Native American Crafts Day. You will learn from Louisiana's Native American craftsmen to make traditional and contemporary works. Weave the web of Grandmother Spider to create your own dreamcatcher. Create your own arrowhead from stone or a blowgun from elderberry. Make jewelry with beads, garfish scales or an alligator tooth. Weave a basket of palmetto or longleaf pine needles. Make and play native toys and games. Learn how to shoot a bow in the Indian style. Gain an appreciation for the hand-crafted goods that local Native Americans have created from Louisiana's natural materials and used for thousands of years. If you would like to make crafts to take home, minimal supply fees may apply.
June 5, 2010 (Saturday) - Beadwork and Native Jewelry Day
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.00 adults, $2.50 children & seniors (Includes admission to the Native American Museum)
Watch as local Native American artisans transform tiny colorful beads, alligator garfish scales, alligator teeth and alligator bone humps into unique, beautiful beadwork and jewelry. These traditional and contemporary accessories have embellished tribal dress and dance regalia in both recent times and past. Add a lovely piece of Native American beadwork or jewelry to your jewelry collection.

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