EVENTS

MuseuM exhibits • tours • Festivals • Meetings • education • conFerences

v NEW EXHIBITS

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

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)

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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)

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)

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.— The special exhibit “Excavating Archaeology at the University of Michigan, 1817-2017” explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years, and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects, archival documents and images, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University’s involvement in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment. (734) 764-9304, www.lsa.umich.edu/ kelsey/ (October 18, 2017 - May 27, 2018)

v CONFERENCES, LECTURES & FESTIVALS

Southeastern Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology

September 15-16, The Spencer Shops, Salisburg, North Carolina. This year’s meeting at Spencer Shops, Southern Railway’s major steam locomotive repair facility in the early twentieth century, focuses on “the Archaeology of Transportation.” Whether by path, trail, paved road, on rails, over water, or through the air, transportation has played a vital role in the movement of people, their cultural practices, and their material goods. This theme will be explored in papers and poster presentations. (865) 974-1000, www.sechsa.org

Plains Anthropological Conference

October 4-7, Bismarck, N.Dak. The seventy-fifth annual conference, which is hosted by the State Historical Society of North Dakota, features various presentations and poster sessions concerning anthropological research in the Great Plains. www.plainsanthropologicalsociety.org/meeting

South-Central Conference on Mesoamerica

October 13-15, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. This regional conference brings together scholars in the fields of archaeology, ethnography, and art history with students and the public to share information and interpretations about current Mesoamerican research. sccmconference@gmail.com, www.southcentralmeso.org

Jornada Mogollon Archaeological Conference

October 13-14, El Paso Museum of Archaeology, El Paso, Tex. The conference will highlight papers and presentations related to the archaeology of the Mogollon region, including the Mogollon Rim, Mimbres, Jornada regions, and northern Chihuahua. (915) 755-4332, www.archaeology.elpasotexas.gov

Midwest Archaeological Conference

October 19-21, Indianapolis, Ind. The annual conference features presentations, symposia, lectures, a reception and tours to local sites. www.midwestarchaeology.org

Pueblo Grande Museum Archaeological Park

Phoenix, Ariz.—“Fragments: Broken Bowls Tell More Tales” explores the kinds of things archaeologists learn from small bits of broken pottery. Each sherd tells a story about the people who made and used it, allowing archaeologists to piece together larger stories about human lives and societies hundreds of years ago. (602) 495-0901, www.phoenix. gov/parks/arts-culturehistory/pueblo-grande/ (opens October 2017).

Southeastern Archaeological Conference

November 8-11, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Tulsa, Okla. The conference includes paper and poster presentations, symposia, a reception at the Gilcrease Museum, field trips to Spiro Mound and other local sites, and dinner at the Tvlahassee Wvkokaye Ceremonial Grounds. The opening ceremony will feature drumming and dancing by Native American performers. A Native American art show will be held in conjunction with the conference. www.southeasternarchaeology.org

American Indian Arts Marketplace

November 11-12, The Autry Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. Enjoy a weekend of performances, juried arts competitions and marketplace, children’s activities, demonstrations, films, and traditional foods at the largest native arts fair in southern California. Featuring at least 200 Native American artists, the marketplace represents more than forty tribes from across the country. (323) 557-2000, https://theautry.org/events