Discovering History: The Significance of a Wooden Mortar and Pestle in Louisiana’s Cultural Legacy
We came for the armoires, but I left thinking about ground cornmeal. Each year, the Historic New Orleans Collection’s Decorative Arts of the Gulf South (DAGS) program sends a team of interns to document and catalog the material culture of historic sites. Interns learn how to identify, photograph, and describe historic objects in public and […] More