In celebration of the opening of the Museum's landmark exhibition Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest, on view through July 10, 2005, representatives of Native American communities offered blessings and performed ceremonial songs and dances

Natural History, Feb, 2005

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Caption: In celebration of the opening of the Museum's landmark exhibition Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest, on view through July 10, 2005, representatives of Native American communities offered blessings and performed ceremonial songs and dances. Left, a dancer from the Haida Nation from the Queen Charlotte Islands in Canada; right, the White Buffalo Dance performed by the Cellicion Traditional Zuni Dancers of New Mexico.