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When the National Museum was created in 1989, a law governing repatriation was drafted specifically for the museum, the National Museum of the American Indian Act, upon which NAGPRA was modeled. [38] In addition to repatriation, the museum engages in dialogues with tribal communities regarding the appropriate curation of cultural heritage items.
The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903.He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace complex, in the Sugar Hill neighborhood, just south of Washington Heights. [2]
National Museum of American History: American history: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1964 [18] National Museum of the American Indian: Native American history and art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 2004 [19] [20] National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center: Native American history and art: New York City Bowling Green ...
The law also required the Secretary of the Smithsonian to prepare an inventory of all Indian and Native Hawaiian human remains and funerary objects in Smithsonian collections, as well as expeditiously return these items upon the request of culturally affiliated federally recognized Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations.
Anita Fields (born 1951) is an Osage/Muscogee Native American ceramic and textile artist based in Oklahoma.She is an enrolled citizen of the Osage Nation.. Fields is recognized internationally for her work in ceramics, often rendering functional items such as purses, moccasins, and dresses in clay. [1]
The Museum of the American Indian opened to the public in 1922. [8] It closed in 1994, after the collection had been moved in 1989 to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1994 the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian opened in the former Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House near Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
The Autry and the Southwest Museum hold the second-largest collection of indigenous art and artifacts in the country, second to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. [2] The Metro A Line stops down the hill from the museum at the Southwest Museum station. About a block from the A Line stop is an entrance on Museum Drive that ...
Jerome Grant is an American chef in Washington, D.C., most notable as Sweet Home Café's inaugural executive chef of the historic National Museum of African American History and Culture and his tenure at the Mitsitam Café of the National Museum of the American Indian.