Palm Harbor Museum: Hermann Trappman with THE TOCOBAGA TRIBE OF TAMPA BAY

PALM HARBOR MUSEUM PRESENTS:

Hermann Trappman with THE TOCOBAGA TRIBE OF TAMPA BAY: A CULTURAL DISCOVERY

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 6:30 PM at The Palm Harbor Library Community Room (first door on the right at front entrance of library) at 2330 Nebraska Ave., Palm Harbor, FL 34683.

Tampa Bay's digital artist, painter, sculptor, historian, and environmental educator Hermann Trappman returns to Palm Harbor Museum's programs to explore our environmental past with a powerful visual history program/discussion of the culture and history of Tampa Bay's once thriving ancient Tocobaga Tribe, the capitol of which was today's Safety Harbor and Tampa Bay Region. A Florida treasure who has devoted his life for the last 3 decades to telling the story of Florida's natural & cultural history, Trappman explores the ways in which ancient Florida's first peoples related to their world. Through extensive research, he may take up to 500 hours to complete an individual painting. His images have been published and displayed globally within educational and art programs, providing both an artistic and historic view of our changing peoples and landscape over millennia.

Living in villages in the Tampa Bay region some six centuries from 900 CE to c1600 CE, the Tocobaga Indians—whose primary diets were fish, shellfish, and other water-dwelling creatures in addition to animals, berries, nuts, and fruit— situated their homes around a central public area serving as a meeting place. Within their villages were mounds comprised of shells, earth, and stones, on which stood the dwelling place of the chief and the temple serving the village. Burial mounds existed outside the village areas. The Tocobaga were excellent hunters, potters, and tool builders, thriving in our region until c1528 when Spanish explorers led by Pánfilo de Narváez arrived here. As a result of the extensive disease and destruction with which the tribe was beset after these Spanish explorers arrived, the Tocobaga Indians' formerly peaceful lives came to an end. They were extinct within the next 100 years. The shell mound at Phillippe Park is among the few remaining archaeological sites of their once-flourishing existence on the west coast of central Florida.

Hermann Trappman will be available for book signings following this program.

Join us at Palm Harbor Library on November 1st at 6:30 PM as Palm Harbor Museum Presents Hermann Trappman with The Tocobaga Tribe of Tampa Bay: A Cultural Discovery.

There is no charge to attend and all are welcome. There is plenty of free parking at Palm Harbor Library, which is wheelchair accessible and requires no steps to enter. Disabled parking spaces by front entrance. Open seating for this event. We recommend you arrive early, especially for seats closer to the front—or email [email protected] to request that we hold front seats for you.

Walk-ins are welcome. RSVPs are not required — but do help us plan. We would be grateful if you reserve your spot from this page.

For additional information: https://www.palmharbormuseum.com/

Discover more about Hermann Trappman:

• https://www.elizabethneily.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/elizabethneilydesigns/

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Palm Harbor Library, 2330 Nebraska Avenue, Palm Harbor, United States