The Amerind Foundation

A Museum of Native American

Archaeology, Art, History, and Culture

Exhibitions

IN THE AMERIND MUSEUM:

Images in Time

A permanent exhibition installed in the principal gallery of the Anthropology Museum. The exhibition incorporates objects from the Amerind museum collection in some 1,600 square feet of display area. "Images" refers to figurative (human, animal, and even plant motifs) expressions in the material culture of Native Americans. "Time" includes objects from prehistoric, historic, and contemporary contexts. The exhibition presents the richness of figurative design in such diverse media as textiles, organic fibers, clay, stone, wood, ivory, metal, beads, and leather. Both the symbolic, prosaic, and commercial forces driving human creativity are explored.

Hopi Paintings on Paper:

  Drawing on a Life of Ritual & Community

The exhibit features the paintings of Hopi artist Otis Polelonema and includes works by Fred Kabotie, Waldo Mootzka, and others.  Kachinas from the Amerind permanent collections are also on display.

Traditions in Clay

An exhibition of Pueblo pottery ranging from late prehistoric ancestral ceramics to modern pieces.  Pueblo pottery developed in prehistoric times from simple utility jars to intricately textured and painted wares.  The art form was revived with the advent of the railroad and the arrival of tourists in the Southwest in the 1880s.  Contemporary Pueblo potters still use centuries-old techniques of construction and are inspired by pottery forms and designs a millennium or more old.

The Prehistoric Southwest

Archaeological exhibits interpreting prehistoric Indian cultures of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.

IN THE FULTON-HAYDEN MEMORIAL ART GALLERY:

International Indigenous Photographers

Permanent Exhibits

Works on western themes by such artists as William Leigh, Carl Oscar Borg, and Frederic Remington.  A variety of other paintings and sculptures by nineteenth and twentieth-century Anglo- and Native American artists are displayed, as well as furnishings spanning the seventeenth through twentieth centuries and a collection of exquisite scrimshaw carvings.

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May 09, 2008