The Moundville Archaeological Park announced the opening of a new exhibition, “Pum Vculvke Enliketv Tate: The Home of Our Ancestors” co-curated by Jake Tiger of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. The exhibit is running until August 2027 and admission pricing begins at $6 for students.
According to the Moundville Archaeological Park, the exhibition makes a powerful case that the traditions practiced at Moundville are not artifacts of a lost culture, but of communities that carry Moundville’s legacy forward to this day.
Jessica Dees, education outreach coordinator and festival director at Moundville Archaeological Park, said the exhibit is planned a year ahead with different tribes, but the decision of what gets shown was by Tiger in order to portray his own story.
“We try to do it in the spectrum of collaborating with different tribes whereas we wanted Jake to take the lead, from the mounds to the regalias,” Dees said.
Items inside the exhibit include a Mvskoke woven skirt by Mary Smith and Nancy Spain Mvskoke Creek Nation of Oklahoma, Seminole style moccasins, beaded and split bison horn diadem, twin and otter skin bags on loan from Tiger.
“Displayed are the items he made himself or his family made, which made great resources in the museum,” Dees said.
According to the “Tradition are Adorned” poster at Jones Archeological Museum, Tiger made the beaded diadem with hawk feathers in 2025, weaving it on a heddle loom and drawing inspired by a “description of Mekko Cvpko, a Seminole chief whom written records place in 1770s Georgia.”
The split bison horn diadem is based on Yvnvsv, a woodland bison that once ranged across the Southeast before going extinct. The drawing was sketched by Bernard Romans of a Muscogee war chief from northwest Florida in the 18th century.
“Regalias represent a specific identity or hierarchy based on drawings Jake had from historical accounts from two leaders,” Dees said. “It breaks the stereotype of what a Native American is supposed to look like, so I do like that aspect about it.”
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