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'Chief Wahoo' has been the Cleveland Indians mascot for many years. This decal advertising the 'Cleveland Press' newspaper dates to the 1950s. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Homestead Auctions.

Ohio history museum plans 2nd ‘Controversy’ show

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
'Chief Wahoo' has been the Cleveland Indians mascot for many years. This decal advertising the 'Cleveland Press' newspaper dates to the 1950s. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Homestead Auctions.
‘Chief Wahoo’ has been the Cleveland Indians mascot for many years. This decal advertising the ‘Cleveland Press’ newspaper dates to the 1950s. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Homestead Auctions.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s history museum is planning a sequel to last year’s exhibit of provocative items that included the state’s old electric chair and a Ku Klux Klan robe.

Starting Feb. 29, the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus will display a Nazi flag, late 19th-century art with caricatures of blacks and a 1940s Cleveland Indians jacket featuring the “Chief Wahoo” mascot. The Columbus Dispatch reports the new exhibit will be called “Controversy 2: Pieces We Don’t Normally Talk About.”

Last year’s exhibit was titled “Controversy: Pieces You Don’t Normally See.”

The follow-up also will include a work by Dayton poet Paul Laurence Dunbar written in Southern black dialect and an early 1900s bowling set for children, with ethnic figures as pins.

Museum director Sharon Dean says it’s all “difficult” stuff.

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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com

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'Chief Wahoo' has been the Cleveland Indians mascot for many years. This decal advertising the 'Cleveland Press' newspaper dates to the 1950s. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Homesteat Auctions.
‘Chief Wahoo’ has been the Cleveland Indians mascot for many years. This decal advertising the ‘Cleveland Press’ newspaper dates to the 1950s. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Homesteat Auctions.