Kiowa @ Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve

Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve
1925 Woolaroc Ranch Rd, Bartlesville, OK 74003
GPS Coordinates: 36.642627, -96.096580
Tel: 1-918-336-0307 ext. 10
Web: https://www.woolaroc.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/woolaroc/

Regular hours: Closed Monday and Tuesday / Wednesday thru Sunday 10AM to 5PM

Summer hours:Closed Monday (Open Memorial Day and Labor Day) / Tuesday thru Sunday from 10AM to 5PM

Admission: Adults – $12 / Over 65 – $10 / Children 11 and younger are FREE

Contact the museum first to confirm which items are currently on display, as they, like most museums, rotate their collection.

Hidden away in the rugged Osage Hills of Northeastern Oklahoma, Woolaroc was established in 1925 as the ranch retreat of oilman Frank Phillips. The name WOOLAROC is derived from three words—the woods, lakes and rocks that make up the beautiful Osage Hills of northeast Oklahoma where Woolaroc is located. The ranch is a 3,700 acre wildlife preserve, home to many species of native and exotic wildlife, such as buffalo, elk and longhorn cattle. Woolaroc is also a museum with an outstanding collection of western art and artifacts, Native American material, one of the finest collections of Colt firearms in the world, and so much more.

The Woolaroc Museum has a few Kiowa artifacts, as well as additional ones in storage.

One of the first things you'll appreciate about the museum is the main entry mosaic. The five large Native American figures from left to right represent the Plains tribe, a Hopi Kachina Dancer, Kiowa Fancy Dancer, Plains hunter, and an Algonquian warrior on the far right. The 24 smaller figures are from actual pottery, buckskin, and painting designs. The eight plaques on the door are onyx, engraved with designs from some of the shell gorgets found in the Spiro Mound here in Oklahoma.

Shortly after the dome room was added, the Foscotti family with the assistance of Winold Ries, (who drew the art) cut the colored glass and worked 64 hours straight without stopping to set all of the mosaic into the wet plaster before it dried.

Source:
* Woolaroc.org. (2019). Woolaroc. [online] Available at: www.woolaroc.org [Accessed 29 Jan. 2019].