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Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Santa Fe, N.M.—“The Pottery of Santa Ana Pueblo” traces the history and development of pottery making at Santa Ana, a small Keres-speaking community just northwest of Albuquerque that for centuries made distinctive pottery for domestic and ritual use. The exhibition traces the history of Santa Ana ceramic art from its origins in several distinctive ancestral styles to the development of a unique Santa Ana style. This is the most complete collection of Santa Ana ceramics assembled for an exhibit. (505) 827-6463, www.miaclab.org (New long-term exhibit) Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park Phoenix, Ariz.—The museum celebrates its 75th anniversary with a new exhibition, “Journey to the Past,” that documents the museum’s decades-old role in documenting and interpreting the history and culture of the ancient Hohokam people. Using a combination of histori-
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cal photographs and objects from the museum’s collections, the exhibit explores the changes at the museum and the 1,500-year-old Hohokam village site located on the museum grounds. (602) 495-0901, www.pueblogrande.com (New longterm exhibit) Heard Museum Phoenix, Ariz.—The exhibit “Home: Native Peoples in the Southwest” features more than 2,000 of the museum’s most outstanding pieces and explores the concept of home. The exhibition is divided into five sections to reflect the different geographic areas: the Pueblos, the Colorado Plateau, the Colorado River, the Central Mountains, and the Sonoran Desert. This completely redesigned state-of-the-art gallery, developed in collaboration with many native people, features a video area and house structures that vividly tell the story of home for many of the Southwest’s native cultures. (602) 252-8840, www.heard.org (New permanent exhibit)
Fenimore Art Museum Cooperstown, N.Y.— The museum is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the "Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art," one of the finest private collections amassed in recent years. The collection, displayed in the museum's Thaw Gallery, is grouped into six major cultural areas. It consists of over 800 exceptional pieces that represent the highest artistic levels of North American Indian culture. (607) 547-1400, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org (Long-term exhibit)
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The University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.—“The Pearsall Collection of American Indian Art: 40th Anniversary Selections” consists of more than 300,000 19th- and early 20th-century objects, including 400 baskets, nearly 600 argillite carvings and 19 totem poles from the Northwest Coast, southeastern Middle Mississippian era pipes and pottery, Arctic carvings in ivory and horn, and many other important and unique objects. Selections from this little-known collection will be on exhibit for the first time in 40 years in honor of the collector, Leigh Morgan Pearsall, who spent his life collecting art from nearly every Native American group in North America. (352) 846-2000, www.flmnh.ufl.edu (Long-term exhibit)
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