Amerind Foundation

Amerind Foundation

The Amerind Foundation is a private, membership supported, nonprofit ethnological, anthropological, archaeological museum and research facility dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Native American cultures and their histories. Its facilities are located near the village of Dragoon, Arizona, about 65 miles east of Tucson, Arizona in Texas Canyon.

William Shirley Fulton (1880-1964), an archaeologist, established the Amerind Foundation in 1937.

The Amerind Foundation's museum contains one of the finest collections of archaeological and ethnological artifacts in the country as well as a sizable research library. Displayed in the art gallery are paintings by 20th century Anglo and Native American artists. It was founded in 1937 by William Shirley Fulton and is an anthropological and archaeological museum and research center used to the preserve and interpret Native American cultures and their histories. [citation | title= Amerind Foundation Museum: About | publisher=ARTINFO | year=2008 | url= http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/21101/7619/about/amerind-foundation-museum-dragoon/ | accessdate=2008-07-25 ]

According to the Foundation's literature, "Amerind" is a contraction of the words "American" and "Indian".

Amerind Foundation published works

* "Archaeological Notes on Texas Canyon, Arizona", by William Shirley Fulton. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Vols. 1-3. 1934-1938. New York. (out of print)
* "An Archaeological Site Near Gleeson, Arizona", by William Shirley Fulton and Carr Tuthill. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 1. 1940. (out of print)
* "A Ceremonial Cave in the Winchester Mountains, Arizona", by William Shirley Fulton. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 2. 1941. (out of print)
* Painted Cave in Northeastern Arizona, by Emil W. Haury. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 3. 1945. (out of print)
* "The Tres Alamos Site on the San Pedro River, Southeastern Arizona", by Carr Tuthill. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 4. 1947. (out of print)
* "The Babocomari Village Site on the Babocomari River, Southeastern Arizona", by Charles C. Di Peso. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 5. 1951. (out of print)
* "The Sobaipuri Indians of the Upper San Pedro Valley, Southeastern Arizona", by Charles C. Di Peso. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 6. 1953. (out of print)
* "The Upper Pima of San Cayetano del Tumacacori", by Charles C. Di Peso. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 7. 1956. (out of print)
* "The Reeve Ruin of Southeastern Arizona", by Charles C. Di Peso. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 8. 1958. (out of print)
* "Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca", by Charles C. Di Peso, John B. Rinaldo, and Gloria J. Fenner. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 9. Vols. 1-8. 1974. (out of print) ISBN 0-87358-056-7
* "Exploring the Hohokam: Prehistoric Desert Peoples of the American Southwest", edited by George J. Gumerman. University of New Mexico Press. 1991. (out of print) ISBN 0-8263-1228-4
* "Culture and Contact: Charles C. Di Peso's Gran Chichimeca", edited by Anne I. Woosley and John C. Ravesloot. University of New Mexico Press. 1993. (out of print) ISBN 0-8263-1460-0
* "Mimbres Mogollon Archaeology", by Anne I. Woosley and Allan J. McIntyre. Amerind Foundation Publication No. 10. University of New Mexico Press. 1996. (out of print) ISBN 978-0-8263-1674-5
* "Great Towns and Regional Polities: Cultural Evolution in the U.S. Southwest and Southeast", edited by Jill E. Neitzel. University of New Mexico Press. 1999. (out of print) ISBN 0-8263-2001-5
* "Salado", edited by Jeffrey S. Dean. University of New Mexico Press. 2000. (out of print) ISBN 0-8263-2169-0
* "Anthropological Perspectives on Technology", edited by Michael B. Schiffer. University of New Mexico Press. 2001. ISBN 0-8263-2369-3
* "Embedded Symmetries: Natural and Cultural", edited by Dorothy K. Washburn. University of New Mexico Press. 2004. ISBN 0-8263-3152-1
* "Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, and Society", edited by Suzanne K. Fish, Paul R. Fish, and M. Elisa Villalpando. University of Arizona Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8165-2540-9

References

External links

* [http://www.amerind.org/ Amerind Foundation]
* [http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=ny&third=hours National Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation]
* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/di_peso_charles_c..html Biography of Charles C. Di Peso] , Director of the Amerind Foundation from 1954 to 1982.
* [http://www.sarweb.org/scholars/scholars/individuals/scholars99-00/ware00.htm John Ware] , current Director of the Amerind Foundation, 2001-present.


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