Maxine McBrinn, Curator of Archaeology at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, gives a tour of the current exhibit Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and its Meaning.
What a wonderful docent. And what a cool display of history and turquoise. Very impressive! Thank you for this online tour. As a field archaeologist, 15 years of fieldwork in the southwest, I have run across turquoise only once...two light blue small round disk beads with a bit of light tan matrix under a sage brush on a pueblo II Hisatsinom site, and they are still there.
One pendant on my necklace is blue plastic, the rest natural turquoise. I had not valued my beautiful blue plastic pendant until now! Now, I love it! Thankyou. Wonderful presentation.
Very interesting! I love turquoise, but never knew how it was formed or that each stone can look so different or be a different hue. I would LOVE to visit!
the planning probably is taking a set of routers down at a time. It literally would take each segment time to react to the last segment, and so on until ‘end of the line’. Think of one server failing at a time, which makes the connect servers fail, and so on
squash blossom doesn't actually represent anything, it was literally the ring in the noses of the first horses native americans saw that the spanish brought with them... the small blossoms surrounding the center were tassle ends from the spanish officers uniforms
