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Amerind quarterly The Newsletter of the Amerind Foundation winter 2004 (vol. 1, no. 1) This is an exciting time at the archaeology, art, history, and Native MISSION Amerind. Last year we implemented a American Studies. Our newest research Established in 1937, the comprehensive education program to program, the Amerind Seminars, is Amerind Foundation and reach out to children of all ages, and a collaboration with the Society for Museum seeks to foster American Archaeology where we host, and promote knowledge we are developing outreach programs and understanding of for underserved each fall, an outstanding the Native Peoples of communities in symposium from the Americas through our rural area. In the Society’s annual research, education, and the last two years meeting the previous conservation. our volunteer spring. program has grown The Amerind effort from 19 to more that we are perhaps BOARD OF DIRECTORS than 60 dedicated most excited about is Peter L. Formo, Tucson (Emeritus) volunteer staff! our new membership Marilyn F. Fulton, San Diego We’ve installed program—our fi rst in 66 Wm. Duncan Fulton, San Diego fi ve new exhibits years! As we develop George J. Gumerman, Santa Fe, in the museum and new programs and [email protected] art gallery and will expand our services in Michael W. Hard, Tucson, [email protected] be redesigning the A 5th grade student becomes engaged in the months and years Michael B. Husband, Pennsylvania main exhibition the beauty of Native American beadwork. ahead we’ll need to [email protected] galleries in the months ahead. Native establish closer ties with Peter Johnson, Tucson, [email protected] American scholars, artists, and educators our community. With our new emphasis on J. William Moore, Phoenix, will play a vital role in Amerind’s future public programs, education, and outreach, [email protected] as we continue to build bridges to Native we must actively reach out to the public Lawrence Schiever, Tucson, [email protected] communities through our Native Arts and develop a constituency with a voice Weekends and resident artist programs. so that we can respond to community EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Amerind no longer engages needs. Thank you for becoming a founding John A. Ware, Dragoon, in archaeological excavations, but we member of the Amerind extended family! [email protected] remain an active research center. Our We hope you enjoy this newsletter and that Letters to the director and the research collections, library, and archives you contact us with ideas and suggestions board members can be sent remain important destinations for scholars for how to make the membership program care of the Amerind, Box 400, conducting research in anthropology, and newsletter even better. Dragoon, AZ 85609. 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Hard, President A look back The Amerind logo, an imbedded six-pointed house and broke ground star design, was taken from a small red-on-brown bowl for a small museum to that was fashioned some 800 years ago by a Hohokam display his burgeoning potter at a small prehistoric American Indian art farming settlement near the collection. present town of Gleeson Over the years, in southern Cochise “Pa” Fulton added to the County. The bowl Amerind’s collections was recovered in 1938 by sponsoring scientific during excavations excavations and William S. Fulton, with his wife, at the Gleeson Site by archaeological surveys Rose Hayden Fulton, and daugh- William Shirley Fulton, a throughout southern ter Elizabeth Fulton Husband. year after he had established Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northern the Amerind Foundation of Dragoon as a nonprofit Mexico. In those years the collections grew to over research center with the goal of increasing the world’s 20,000 objects, the museum to over 10,000 square feet, knowledge of ancient peoples. and an art gallery and research library were added in the As a boy growing up in Waterbury, Connecticut, early 1950s. When Mr. and Mrs. Fulton passed away Fulton was fascinated with American Indians and their in the 1960s they left an endowment that continues prehistory. He would later tell the story of his first to support the foundation’s activities in research and visit to the Southwest in 1913 and his discovery of a education, and Fulton descendants still play an active small prehistoric jar in a cave in the Mingus Mountains role in directing the foundation. William Duncan Fulton, near Jerome. This nondescript plainware jar, covered grandson of the founders, is chairman of the Amerind in mineral deposits, sparked Fulton’s curiosity about Board; Dunc’s aunt, Elizabeth Husband, who passed ancient peoples of the Southwest and encouraged him, away last year at the age of 92, served on the Amerind upon his retirement as president of the Waterbury Farrel board for nearly fifty years. In its 66th year, Pa Fulton’s Foundry and Machine Company in 1930, to move his vision is alive and well, and the exquisite design of an family to the FF Ranch in Texas Canyon. Here he built a unknown Hohokam potter still symbolizes that vision. from canyon walls to easels Amerind’s first membership event, the opening Mrs. Andrew Tsihnajinnie, widow of one of the other of “From Canyon Walls to Easels…Glimpses of Navajo artists represented in our exhibit, was able to Navajo Life,” on October 25th, was join us at the opening. Our gallery enthusiastically attended by just lecturers, Dave Brugge and Melanie under 90 of our members. Famed Yazzie, gave excellent presentations Navajo artist Harrison Begay was on Navajo history and modern a surprise visitor at the opening, a directions in Native American fine real treat for everyone as Harrison art, and the members-only reception set up his easel in the art gallery and following the opening gave our demonstrated his fine-line watercolor members a chance to meet the technique. Mr. Begay is a vigorous artists and scholars. Many thanks to 89 years old, and he was kept volunteers Sherry Manoukian, Janet busy signing programs, posing for Miller, Sally Newland, Sue Schuster, photographs, answering questions, and Jonathan Williams, who helped and selling small samples of his Mrs. Tsihnahjinnie and Harrison with the gallery setup and with food Begay at the members’ reception. work. We were also delighted that service at the reception. 2 From the Collections Geronimo’s Bow As museum visitors we engage in multi- he would only be allowed to tend the horses and help out dimensional relationships with the objects on display. at the camp. Or the bow he made to fully participate in The objects in the Amerind Museum come from different his first raiding party. Or the one he carried to avenge times, from people of different cultures, and each has the mutilation and death of his wife, mother, and three its own history of how it got here. We bring to this children by Mexican soldiers from Sonora. relationship our own knowledge, our perceptions, and It is not a bow he made when ammunition was attitudes. At the best of times, this relationship involves in short supply during the many raids and battles against our intellect, our emotions, and our sense of aesthetics. the Mexicans and American soldiers, miners, and settlers A bow made by Geronimo will soon be on over the years. Nor is it a bow he might have had with display at the Amerind. That it was made by perhaps him at his final surrender in 1886. the most famous—some would say notorious—Indian The bow you will see at the Amerind in American history compounds the interest museum encompasses all of these bows; yet, it is a bow of a very visitors will likely have in the exhibit. different time, different place, and different meaning. It The bow you will see at the Amerind is not is a bow not of a free Apache; not of someone the bow in the creation stories used by the feathered who, as Geronimo said, “ moved like the wind.” creatures to gain control over the beasts, bringing light It is a bow made in 1904 by U.S. prisoner of war into the world so humans could be born; not the bow Geronimo, incarcerated in Florida thousands used by Child of the Water to slay the dragon.