Texas Botanical Gardens

Trailside interpretive panel explaining how wickiups are constructed. Wickiup in background.

Trailside interpretive panels describing various aspects of the hunter-gatherer life.

Wickiup constructed from local indigenous light timber and grasses.

Recreation of a earth oven and burned rock midden.

Dale Barnett giving a tour of the gardens’ exhibits.

Mike O’Brien gathering grasses for the construction of the wickiups.

Mike O’Brien, Tab Ledbetter, David Early, and Savannah Lane constructing the wickiup.

Trailside interpretive panel introducing the topic of the hunter-gatherer way of life.

Trailside interpretive panel discussing the topic of food sources for early Native Americans.

Trailside interpretive panel describing how projectile points are made.