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Elizabeth Chew

Ph.D., curator at Monticello

Elizabeth Chew, Ph.D., is curator at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is an art historian who is interested in connections between material culture, architecture, and the politics of gender and family. She is particularly interested in Thomas Jefferson’s family at Monticello. She organized the re-creation of Jefferson’s Indian Hall in commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. This project took her west and introduced her to amazing Native American artists of the Northern Plains.

 

    Jefferson’s Indian Hall

    Expedition souvenirs and specimens

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    Bostonian George Ticknor catalogued the “strange furniture” of the four walls of the room after his visit in 1815, listing heads and horns, “curiosities which Lewis and Clark found on their wild and perilous expedition,” mastodon bones, and the two Native American painted hides.

Discover More

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.