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v NEW EXHIBITS Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Alutiiq Museum Archaeological Repository
National Mall, Washington, D.C.—The critically-acclaimed exhibit “A Song for Horse Nation,” previously at the museum’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York, will travel to Washington with an expanded version which doubles its exhibition space to 9,500 square feet. The exhibition presents the epic story of the horse’s influence on American Indian tribes beginning with the return of horses to the Western Hemisphere by Christopher Columbus to the present day. The exhibit traces how horses changed the lives of native people from the way they
Alutiiq Museum Archaeological Repository
Arizona State Museum
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
Kodiak, Alaska—At the southern tip of Kodiak Island, where the land reaches far into the rough waters of the North Pacific, Alutiiq ancestors recorded their stories in stone. Carved into the bedrock of Cape Alitak, images of animals and people guard the storm-tossed entrance to the Alutiiq world. The new exhibition “The Cape Alitak Petroglyphs” explores how these images were made, what information they contain, and how archaeologists are working to preserve them. (907) 486-7004, www.alutiiqmuseum.org (Through May 2012)
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
Phoenix, Ariz.—From the Archaic to the present, people have inhabited Perry Mesa, located in Agua Fria National Monument, leaving their marks on the landscape. The exhibit “Landscape Legacies: The Art and Archaeology of Perry Mesa” examines how these marks changed over time. Pat Gorraiz’s stunning photographs of the rock art, architecture, and agricultural practices of Perry Mesa reveal the past. This exhibit is a collaboration between Agua Fria National Monument, Pueblo Grande Museum, and Arizona State University. (623) 582-8007, http://dvrac.asu.edu (Through January 31, 2012)
Arizona State Museum
University of Arizona, Tucson—The exhibit “Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera” explores 3,000 years of varied Mexican histories through some 300 objects, including objects such as a Maya ritual corn vessel, Spanish Colonial retablos, Santa Anna’s sword and uniform, Maximilian’s ring and Carlota’s brooch, and a sombrero that may have belonged to Pancho Villa. This exhibit interprets the broad sweep of Mexican history from the perspective of the borderlands—a vast, contested space that was the outer rim of Mesoamerica in the pre-Columbian period and later evolved into the northern frontier of SpanishIndian relations following the conquest of Mexico. The establishment of the international border between the United States and Mexico in the mid-19th century set the stage for a new set of cross-cultural contacts and commercial exchanges. (520) 621-6302, www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits (Through 2012)
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traveled, hunted, and defended themselves, to how horse trade among tribes was the conduit for the magnificent spread of horses in the Plains and Plateau regions of the United States. Fifteen more objects were added to the exhibition, including a 16-foot high, hand-painted 19th-century Sioux tipi depicting battle and horse raiding scenes. Other highlights include a life-size horsemannequin in fully-beaded regalia and Geronimo's and Chief Joseph’s rifles. (202) 633-1000, www.americanindian.si.edu (Opens October 29)
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