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Beauty Surrounds Us

September 23, 2006 - January 30, 2011

Museum: American Indian Museum Heye Center

Sponsor: American Indian Museum

Location: George Gustav Heye Center, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House

In this space especially designed to showcase the integration of art and daily life in Native cultures throughout the hemisphere, the exhibition features 77 extraordinary objects from the museum's permanent collection. Highlights include an elaborate Quechua girl's dance outfit, a Northwest Coast chief's staff with carved animal figures and crest designs, Seminole turtle shell dance leggings, a conch shell trumpet from pre-Columbian Mexico, a Navajo saddle blanket, and an Inupiak (Eskimo) ivory cribbage board.

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