Hours of Operation

Tuesday - Friday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Saturday:  11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Closed:  December 24 - January 31,

August 1-31

Permanent Exhibits

Native America

 

• Eskimo

• Northwest Cost

• California/Nevada

• Southwest

• Plateau/Great Basin

• Plains

• Northeast Woodlands

• Subartic

• Southeast Woodlands

• Indians of Texas

• Mississippian Pottery, 750-1250 A.D.

• Holderness Collection of Texas Arrowheads Projectile Points

• Pueblos of New Mexico

 

Mexico

• 19th Century Altar and religious art

• Noted 20th century potters

• Regional pottery

• Mexican laquer ware

• Toys and miniatures

• Indigenous crafts

• Serapes and blankets

• Ethnic clothing

• Masks

• Mexican jewelry

• Bark painting

• Modern Maya of Mexico and Guatemala

• Miniature Mexican village (over 600 pieces)

Caribbean

 

* Representative arts and crafts of Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

Central America

 

• Cuna Indians of Panama: material culture items;    collection of Molas

• Basketry of Woonan and Embera Indians of Panama and Columbia

• Guatemalan Masks, Santos, huipils, folkart

• Representative crafts of Nicaragua, Honduras,      Cost Rica

 

South America

 

• Crafts and textiles of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador

• The Amazon: material culture items, textiles and  crafts

• Mapuche Indians of Southern Chile and Argentina

• Indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego

• The Gaucho "Cowboy" of Argentina

• Material culture items and crafts of Indigenous Peoples of Northern Argentina and Paraguay

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