by Daniel Goodman | Mar 4, 2019 | Curator's Corner
by Amanda Mather Corn, or maize, began it’s domesticated life in South Central Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Some of the earliest known examples of corn in the world come from the Mexican state of Oaxaca and you can go visit the cave from whence it came...
by Daniel Goodman | Jan 3, 2019 | Curator's Corner
by Amanda Mather This month we talk about one of those things that, although we use constantly, it’s easy to forget what a revolution they must have been. Think of the world without scissors! Invented in Mesopotamia around 4,000 years ago, the scissors of...
by Daniel Goodman | Dec 5, 2018 | Curator's Corner
by Amanda Mather The sewing machine was invented in 1755 by a German, but was not really a thing that got off the ground until the mid-1850’s in America. The sewing machine has an oddly tumultuous history. It looks like Singer, as in Isaac Merritt Singer, ripped...
by Daniel Goodman | Nov 9, 2018 | Curator's Corner
By Amanda Mather Throughout the course of human history, one thing we needed to figure out, and quick, was how to preserve food. With the advent of agriculture, that need became even more intense, to put it mildly. Here in the desert, this is shocking I know — people...
by Daniel Goodman | Oct 1, 2018 | Curator's Corner
By Amanda Mather Another month, another newsletter and another Object of the Month. This month we’ll look at shoes, namely tewas, or teguas, or tecoas. In 1582, expedition leader, Antonio de Espejo, wrote about New Mexican footwear stating:Â “Everyone, man...
by Daniel Goodman | Sep 3, 2018 | Curator's Corner
By Amanda Mather For the past 2.5 million years, people have been manipulating rock to do our bidding: sharpening and shaping stone into things we can scrape, hunt, cut, and drill with. Rock has been our friend! Projectile points and stone tools are great ways to see...
