Purple knit-lace gloves worn by Prince in the movie Purple Rain (1984). The right glove has two rhinestone-and-gold-colored circular ornaments sewn to each side of the wrist, connected by two dangling strings of rhinestones in gold-colored settings.

Fragment of a nineteenth-century slate board and pencils found at the site of the Lac qui Parle Mission in the 1940s. From the archaeology collection (PUID 293.3) of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Pinback button with illustration of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox used to promote “Minnesota Kick Butts Day,” an event held to support people quitting smoking. Manufactured for the Minnesota Smoke-Free Coalition, 1999.

A Paul Bunyan and Babe salt-and-pepper-shaker set, ca. 1970s.

Map of land transferred by the Minnesota Historical Society to the Lower Sioux Indian Community in 2017.

Jim Denomie speaking to an interviewer in his studio, 2021. Still image from “Art Speaks Teaser,” a video produced by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Jim Denomie reflects on his painting "Off the Reservation (or Minnesota Nice)," which was included in the Art Speaks exhibition at the Minnesota History Center, February 26–July 31, 2022.

Beaded book cover made at Birch Coulee before 1936.

Miniature embroidered moccasins made at Birch Coulee and given to Evangeline Whipple by Julia Walker Lawrence in October of 1908.

Brass seal of Minnesota, created in 1858.