Permanent Exhibits

 

Native America

• Eskimo
• Northwest Coast
• 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 and 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
• Indigenous clothing
• Masks
• Mexican jewelry
• Bark paintings
• 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, Costa 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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