Front entrance to the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in New Ulm, at 27 North Broadway Street. Photo by Robin Gehl, 2020.

Oromo immigrants and refugees to Minnesota perform a traditional song and dance while celebrating Oromo National Day in the Twin Cities in the early 1980s. Used with the permission of Teferi Fufa.

Voyageur statue in Cloquet, Minnesota, along the St. Louis River (part of the Northwest Trail).

Beaver-fur top hat made in Paris ca. 1815. Accession M.2007.211.827 of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Public domain.

Pair of metal hoop earrings (ear bobs) used as trade goods between 1750 and 1837.

Hair-pipe bone beads used in the fur trade no earlier than 1700 and no later than 1837.

Leather moccasins beaded with a geometric design. Originally owned by John Other Day (Wahpeton Dakota) and given to Stephen Return Riggs, a missionary and government interpreter among the Dakota in southwestern Minnesota, ca. 1860.

A Dakota, possibly Yankton, beaded knife sheath dating to the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Two beaded tassels are attached to the sheath's bottom; one tassel ends in metal cones. A string ending in metal cones connects the sheath's sides on either side of its opening. The reverse side of the sheath is undecorated save for a few rows of blue beads near the opening.

Double string of beads includes glass, clay and agate beads; the strand is divided into four rings that are separated by a flat white bead with double holes. The beads are mostly amber colored with a few faceted, round, or cylindrical beads. Additional colors range from plain blue, yellow, or green to multicolored figured beads. The beads were restrung in 1962, but the original bead order has since been restored.