The Autry National Center Honors Southwest Museum Founder Charles Fletcher Lummis for Lummis Day
The Autry National Center's Kim Walters, Director of the Braun Research Library at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Video: Grant Capes.
Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928), was a journalist, photographer, amateur anthropologist, and prolific historian of the southwestern United States.
Lummis and members of the Southwest Society - a branch of the Archaeological Institute of America - founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in 1907. The museum was in downtown Los Angeles until 1914, when the doors of the present building-located on a hill overlooking the Arroyo Seco, midway between downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena-opened to the public in 1914. Lummis also established an endowment to acquire publications in his areas of interest, which included archaeology, folklore, and the history of colonial Mexico.
The Autry National Center's Kim Walters, Director of the
Braun Research Library, will honor Charles Lummis and Lummis
Day (June 3) with a 2-month exhibition - beginning May
5th through July 1st - featuring his birch-bark poems, printing
plates, photographs, and more for public display throughout
the weekend festivities.
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