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The Saint Louis Science Center and the Case of the Missing Eagle Feathers

By Aimee Levitt July 28, 2010

On a winter's night late in 1973, a band of thugs broke into Thomas Airis' home in Wellston. When Thomas' grandson Kevin Airis arrived at the scene, he found the 82-year-old man lying in the middle of the floor badly beaten and surrounded by the... More >>>

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Thomas Airis (far right) and members of his dancing troupe.

Jewel Airis wears one of her father-in-law's porcupine-quill hair roaches.

Thomas Airis, wearing a headdress and his favorite beaded vest. Both are still missing.

Some of the artifacts the Airises never entrusted to the museum: a beaded pouch.

Some of the artifacts the Airises never entrusted to the museum: an eagle claw

Some of the artifacts the Airises never entrusted to the museum: a powder horn.

The catlinite peace pipe Thomas Airis smoked when he became a chief.

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courtesy Kevin Airis

Thomas Airis (far right) and members of his dancing troupe.

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