Here is a 40 foot, ten panel mural created by Susan A. Walton, S. A. Walton Studio, for Murray State University’s Wickliffe Mounds archaeology site, later named a Kentucky State Park.

It is located on bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

It features an artists’ concept of what the Mississippian village may have looked like in its day, complete with houses made of painted river cane wattle-and-daub, and roofed with thatch cut from prairie grass.

It also features figures engaged in trade over pack baskets of lightning whelk shells for making black drink cups and chert blanks for making stone hoes and knives; a man dressed as a Chunkey game player, with discoidal and spear; women spinning cordage and sewing animal skins; men gambling and flint knapping; a quiver of arrows and a hunted goose; a child with a blowgun; baskets of persimmons, walnuts and pawpaws; and some token Osage orange fruit from which some future bow staves can one day be made.

It serves as an educational museum exhibit inside their Lifeways Building.

Give us a call for consultation on creating exhibit items like murals, diorama backdrops, replicas of artifacts, thatched houses, plant and animal models, illustrations, signage, and related items.

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