The beautiful building that holds the Art Gallery --
The Museum building is pretty well hidden in the trees --
I picked up a brochure at the SKP Park office for the Amerind Foundation Museum and thought it looked interesting. So today we drove to Dragoon to check it out. Founded in 1937, The Amerind Foundation is a private, nonprofit archaeological research facility and museum of art, history and culture of Native people from the Americas. It includes an art gallery, a museum store and a picnic area.
The museum and the art gallery are in two beautiful buildings. Unfortunately, they do not allow photography inside the buildings, so I cannot show you any of the beautiful baskets or pottery that they have on exhibit. The museum also tells the story of the Apaches and Geronimo. The transport of these people to Florida and their exile from Arizona for over thirty years was unfamiliar to me. I am more cognizant of the stories of the NW tribes and of the Cherokees. It's always fascinating to learn the stories of the different cultures that make up our nation.
We had some shopping to do at Safeway when we returned to Benson and ended up eating at a Chinese restaurant in the same shopping plaza. We had so much food from the two entrees we ordered that we've got more than enough for lunch tomorrow...
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