Arizona State Museum

DOUBLE YOUR GENEROSITY / DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT

Help us realize our vision for a Southwest Textile Study Room, which will make ASM’s collection accessible to the public like never before. Thanks to a generous challenge grant, donations of any size will be *doubled.*

Read about the project, the challenge, and the collection here: https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/textile-challenge

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Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, Inc.
Grandma's Spinning Wheel
THSG - Tucson Handweavers & Spinners Guild, A Fiber Arts Community

In observance of National Week of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR), we share this silver and coral necklace from ASM’s jewelry collection, a collaboration between Tucson Diné silversmith Alex Beeshligaii and his daughter, Denali (Diné/Swedish). Alex chose the silhouette of a Hopi maiden, a nod to his mother’s side of the family. Denali chose to add the red coral hand to the pendant after hearing a news story about a murdered Diné woman.

Silver and coral necklace dedicated to MMIW
Alex and Denali Beeshligaii, 2021
ASM purchase, Friends of the ASM Collections funds
Pendant length: 7.5 cm.
2021-498-1 a and b

Dr. Edward Jolie, ASM’s Clara Lee Tanner Associate Curator of Ethnology, participated today in the Indigenous Collections Care Speaker Series presented by the Gilcrease Museum. Today’s panel was, “Use and Access in Collections.”

Over 700 people attended the Zoom webinar!

Catch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRX6WTnGz4A