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EXHIBITION OPENING DAY Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans

December 10, 2017
1:00 pm through 4:00 pm

1pm and 3:15pm: Enjoy performances by Apache singers Deshava Apachee and Robert Muñiz


1:30pm and 3:30pm: Watch the Jicarilla Mundo Dancers


2pm: Lecture with Joyce Begay-Foss, Vernon Petago, and Vida Vigil (limited seating!)


The Museum of New Mexico Women’s Board will serve refreshments from 2 - 4pm, and as always, there is a children’s/family hands-on art activity.


About the exhibit:


The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture will exhibit over 100 objects dating from the late 1880s to the present. Cultural objects will represent the lifeways of the different Apachean groups in New Mexico and Arizona. These cultural objects include basketry, beaded clothing, parfleche, hunting and horse gear.

These groups are: Jicarilla Apache, Mescalero Apache, Fort Sill Apache (Chiricahua), San Carlos Apache and White Mountain Apache.