Amerind Museum & Art Gallery


The private, nonprofit Amerind Foundation exhibits American Indian artifacts, and history and culture from tribes from Alaska to Argentina, from the Ice Age to today. At the time of writing, its showpiece exhibit was a collection of Zuni and Navajo jewelry, along with excavations from Paquimé in Mexico. It’s right off I-10 exit 318, in Dragoon.


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