Museum of Northern Arizona
The Museum of Northern Arizona is a museum in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, established as a repository for Indigenous material and natural history specimens from the Colorado Plateau.The museum was founded in 1928 by zoologist Dr. Harold S. Colton and artist Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to preserving the history and cultures of northern Arizona and the Colorado Plateau.[1] In 1930, Katharine Bartlett, a physical anthropologist from Denver, became curator and would remain so for the next 51 years.The private, nonprofit organization grew from two rooms in the Flagstaff Woman's Club to a 24,700-square-foot Exhibits building.The Ethnology Gallery focuses on the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, and Pai tribes.
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