Photos: Amerind Foundation
On Sunday, October 21, the Amerind Foundation celebrates its 75th anniversary. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Native American cultures and history. Founded in 1937 the museum, which is in Texas Canyon, has a fine collection of prehistoric artifacts from archaeological digs throughout the Americas.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
The 1895 Bronco Buster by artist Frederic Remington is on display with other pieces of western art in the Fulton-Hayden Memorial Gallery.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
The main gallery of the Amerind Museum, right, is off the front desk and features Native American artifacts from the Arctic through southern parts of South America.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
William Shirley Fulton started the Amerind Foundation in 1937. Courtesy of Amerind Foundation
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
This is the exterior of the Fulton Seminar House where scholars and various groups can meet.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
In the Amerind Archaelogy Gallery a number of Casas Grandes effigies are on display in the Amerind Museum.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
A 17th century bigger-than-life-sized crucified Christ was made in Mexico from mesquite wood and is hanging in the stairway in the Amerind Museum.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
A Navajo loom sits in the middle of southwestern textiles in the Amerind Museum.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
Navajo concho belts are on display on the second floor of the Amerind Museum.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
On the second floor of the Amerind Museum, Gerri Armstrong and her husband Grant view some of the Navajo and Apache artifacts as well as pipes, beadwork, cradleboards, concho belts and more.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
This is a 1934 bronze casting made by Malvina Hoffman and located in the main gallery of western art in the Fulton-Hayden Memorial Gallery.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
This is the exterior of the Amerind Museum to the left in the background and the Fulton-Hayden Memorial Gallery, in the foreground.
Amerind Foundation 75th anniversary
This is believed to be a Chiracahua Apache basketry jar located in the main gallery of the Amerind Museum. It was discovered by two boys in Guadalupe Canyon in the southeastern Arizona in 1910.
When retired businessman and amateur archeologist William Shirley Fulton established the Amerind Foundation in 1937, he envisioned it as a way…
William and Rose Fulton founded the Amerind Foundation and built a spacious museum in Texas Canyon, and there they assembled a beautiful colle…