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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Santa Fe, N.M.—The exhibit “Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking in the West” features sandals dating back thousands of years that were found in dry caves in New Mexico and nearby regions. It includes Southwest and Plains moccasins, many beautifully beaded or quilled and exhibited for the first time in decades, as well as examples of contemporary native high fashion footwear. (505) 476-1269, www. miaclab.org (Through September 3, 2018)
Ute Indian Museum
Montrose, Colo.—The recently expanded Ute Indian Museum re-opened this summer with new exhibits featuring important artifacts, photographs, and contemporary video and audio that tell the story of the Ute people. These works focus on the Utes’ cultural survival, political self-determination, economic opportunity, and the continued celebration of the traditional Bear Dance. The stunning new building includes an outdoor patio and a traditional pine timber structure. (970) 249-3098, http://www.historycolorado.org/ museums/ute-indian-museum-renovation (Newly expanded museum)
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Washington, D.C.—The new exhibit “Many Voices, One Nation” includes nearly 200 museum artifacts and about 100 loan objects that span 500 years and help illustrate how the many voices of the American people have contributed to and continue to shape the nation, from its beginnings to the present. Artifacts unearthed at the historic New Philadelphia site, an Archaeological Conservancy preserve, will be included in the display. (202) 633-1000, www.americanhistory.si.edu (New long-term exhibit hall)
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Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.—The new exhibit “Moundbuilders: Ancient Architects of North America” explores 5,000 years of Native American moundbuilding traditions through photographs, archival excavation records, and more than sixty artifacts excavated at mound sites throughout the Eastern United States. Earthen mounds have played, and continue to play, important roles in the religious, social, and political lives of native people. Archaeologists have researched this tradition since the eighteenth century, discovering many thousands of mounds, from those at Cahokia, the massive pre-Columbian city outside St. Louis, to smaller mound sites such as Smith Creek in Mississippi, where Penn Museum is currently excavating. The exhibition explores the changing patterns of mound construction and use of mounds through time, beginning with the earliest known mounds, built by small groups of huntergatherers in the Lower Mississippi Valley as early as 3700 B.C. (215) 898-4000, www.penn.museum/exhibitions (Through December 30, 2017)
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