This exhibition looks back in time at art and craft made in different geographic regions of the "western corridor" of the North American continent over a time period spanning many centuries.

 

When we look at the shape of an object we see its afterlife. The real life of the object is how it functioned in the lives of the people who made and used it and gave it cultural meaning.

 

Connecting Objects to Their People illustrates the complex interrelations of environment: including climate, topography, and the natural world of the people and cultures that created the objects.

 

It covers a lineal geographic area from the Arctic to Arizona, featuring four large cultural regions: the Arctic/Subarctic, the Northwest Coast, the Great Basin, and the Southwest.