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Courtesy of the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
Bar Harbor, Maine— “People of the First Light,” the museum’s new core exhibit, introduces visitors to the Wabanaki universe, and immerses them in the culture and history of a people that is unfamiliar to many. Bringing together oral traditions, personal stories, cultural knowledge, language, and historical accounts with objects, photographs, multi-media, and digital interactives, the exhibit shares a wide variety of content and perspectives on at least 12,000 years of history, conflict, adaptation, and survival in the Wabanaki homeland that is now Maine (207) 288-3519, www.abbemuseum.org/exhibits (New long-term exhibit)
Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, Calif.—Explore Pre-Columbian Art from the western Mexican states of Colima, Nayarit, and Jalisco through the exhibit “Ceramics of Western Mexico.” Visitors learn about West Mexican shaft tombs and the cultures that used this means of burial. A selection of the ceramic figures placed inside shaft tombs to accompany the deceased in the afterlife are on display. The exhibit includes artworks that depict imagery from daily life, demonstrating the intensity of West Mexican figurative work. (714) 567-3600, www.bowers.org (Long-term exhibit)
Museum of Northern Arizona
Museum of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, Ariz.—A rich accumulation of petroglyphs within Wupatki National Monument has intrigued the public and scholars over the last century. The exhibit “Images on Stone: Petroglyphs of Wupatki National Monument” explores recent archaeological interpretations of when and by whom the images were made, as well as new information about the unique geological setting of the sites and the process of archaeological documentation. (928) 774-5213, www.musnaz.org (Through March 2017)
american archaeology
abbe museum
Abbe Museum
Autry Museum
Los Angeles, Calif.—Featuring more than 100 pieces of rare ceramics from the Autry’s collection, the exhibition “Four Centuries of Pueblo Pottery” traces the dramatic transformations the Pueblo pottery tradition went through following Spanish colonization. Organized by Pueblo language groups, the show includes pieces by such well-known potters as Maria and Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Nampeyo (Hopi) and her descendants, Juan Cruz Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Tonita Peña Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Gladys Paquin (Laguna Pueblo), and many others. (323) 667-2000, www.theautry.org/exhibitions (Ongoing)
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Makah Cultural and Research Center
Neah Bay, Wash.—The center’s museum houses and interprets artifacts from the Ozette Archaeological Site, a Makah village that was partly buried by a mudslide at Lake Ozette around 1750 and discovered in 1970. An eleven-year excavation by Washington State University researchers produced over 55,000 artifacts, including pre-contact wooden artifacts that had been buried and preserved in a shroud of mud. The center resulted from the tribe’s desire to curate and interpret this unique collection. The museum includes eighteen showcases, a replica long house, three dioramas,
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