Pack rats help preserve history

The Topeka Capital-Journal | February 9, 2001| | Copyright

Artifacts found in rodents' nest at former

Shawnee Methodist Mission are on display.

See PACK RATS, page 7

Pack rats

By MATT MOLINE

Special to The Capital-Journal

This year's construction project to expand the Kansas Museum of History has rekindled interest in a century-old exhibit created by an unlikely curator --- a pack rat.

The exhibit features a handmade cloth doll and a child-sized set of dishes discovered by archeologists in a pack rat's nest at the former Shawnee Methodist Mission complex, one of a series of pre- territorial historic sites operated by the Kansas State Historical ...

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