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                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
                                           Public Information Office
                                           SLU 880, Hammond, LA 70402
                                           504/549-2341/fax 504-549-2061
    Date: xx/xx/97
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple  18

SLU CENTER FOR REGIONAL STUDIES DISPLAYS  ARTIFACTS
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's Center for Regional Studies is
sponsoring an exhibits of artifacts used 3,500 years ago by  Native Americans in the Lake
Pontchartrain basin.
     The artifacts, on display on the second floor of Sims Memorial Library, are among the
approximately 6,500 stone, ceramic, bone and shell specimens from the Wiley Sharp collection.
     The exhibit includes cooking utensils, jewelry, fishing and hunting artifacts, tools and
weapons, many of them excavated at Bayou Jasemine in Tangiphaoa Parish. 
     According to the Center's director, Samuel Hyde, the Bayou Jasemine artifacts provide
excellent insight into the seasonal activities of the early hunting and gathering people who lived
in the Lake Pontchartrain basin nearly 3,500 years ago. 
     The exhibit is open to the public through November from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., weekdays,
and 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturdays. 
     For more information or to schedule group tours call Hyde at 504-549-2151.
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