The “Captured by Indians” exhibit includes three vignettes, like this scene representing Kincade family members who were reunited in 1764 after being held in captivity.

PITTSBURGH — Fort Pitt Museum is exhibiting “Captured by Indians: Warfare & Assimilation on the 18th Century Frontier.”

The 3,000-square-foot exhibition, using documentary evidence from 18th and early 19th century sources and rare artifacts, examines the practice of captivity from its prehistoric roots to its impact on modern American Indians and other ethnicities.

The exhibit includes:

• Three new lifelike vignettes, including Butler County heroine Massy Harbison, who saved the life of her child after escaping from her captors; John Brickell, a young boy captured just a few miles from Fort Pitt; and the Kincade family, who were reunited on the Bouquet Expedition in 1764 after their captivity;

• A bullet-ridden 18th century door from a cabin near Ligonier that was attacked by Indians during the American Revolution;

• A Logan war club that was left at the site of an Indian raid in southwest Virginia in 1774;

• The hat and waistcoat of Jacob Miller, a frontier settler who was killed during a raid on Miller’s Blockhouse in Washington County in 1782.

The museum, part of the Heinz History Center, is in Point State Park. The History Center is presenting this exhibit in association with the Smithsonian Institution.

Call 412-454-6000 or visit heinzhistorycenter.org.