because they could elaborate on their skills, designing decorative elements for moccasins, for saddlebags, for saddle blankets, bridles and so forth. but there is another pair, the fourth pair that is decorated with porcupine quills. those preceded the introduction of the trade beads. some of these may not have been viewed directly as art by native people. they were part of their traditional dress, sending other kinds of messages to their neighbors or to neighboring groups, tribes, and so forth. the title of the gallery is the first people. they were a great experiment. the americas were unoccupied until after either during or after the last ice age. so, 22,000, 20,000 years ago. we wanted to reflect kind of problem solving on the part of these earliest americans and later native people living on the land. they were living on the food that was being produced day by day in the ecosystem. traditional knowledge can traditional knowledge can be a rich source of clues and information that perhaps we can use currently to help solve some problems. we don't want to lose track of that. >> througho

because they could elaborate on their skills, designing decorative elements for moccasins, for saddlebags, for saddle blankets, bridles and so forth. but there is another pair, the fourth pair that is decorated with porcupine quills. those preceded the introduction of the trade beads. some of these may not have been viewed directly as art by native people. they were part of their traditional dress, sending other kinds of messages to their neighbors or to neighboring groups, tribes, and so forth. the title of the gallery is the first people. they were a great experiment. the americas were unoccupied until after either during or after the last ice age. so, 22,000, 20,000 years ago. we wanted to reflect kind of problem solving on the part of these earliest americans and later native people living on the land. they were living on the food that was being produced day by day in the ecosystem. traditional knowledge can be a rich source of clues and information that perhaps we can use currently to help solve some problems. we don't want to lose track of that. >> throughout the weekend, american h

americans because they could elaborate on their skills designing decorative elements per moccasins, saddlebags, saddle blankets, bridles and so forth for horses, but there's another pair, a fourth pair that is decorated with porcupine quills. those preceded the introduction of the trade beads. they were part of traditional dress reflecting -- sending other kinds of messages to their neighbors or to neighboring groups, tribes, and so forth. the title of the gallery is "the first people." and they were -- if you want to view it this way -- a great experiment. the americas were unoccupied until either during this or the last ice age. so, we wanted to reflect problem-solving on the part of these native americans, native people living on the land. they were living on the land day by day by what was produced in the echo system, so traditional knowledge can be a very rich source of clues and information that perhaps you can use to solve problems and we do not want to lose track of that. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring nebraska's capital, lincoln. our cities tour partners worked with