The Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, Pima and other Indians living in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico are famed for their textile, pottery, sand-painting and other designs expressing geometric purity and animal grace.

The Laboratory of Anthropology, the Museum of New Mexico's anthropological research unit, presents selections from its famed Southwest Indian art and artifacts collection. Essays by noted scholars in the field illuminate the change and continuity over two thousand years of Native American basketry, textiles, pottery, and jewelry, while developing the connections between prehistoric, historic, and contemporary trends and traditions.