Mesoamerican Print Shop
💀🦋Join us downtown for MCAD's Dia de los Muertos Fesitval!🦋💀
We will be at the El Paso Museum of Art this Saturday, November 2! Please note that EPMArch will be closed. Visit us downtown for our Mesoamerican Print shop. You can make your own inspired skull print! Check out all the schedule of activities, performances and the parade at:
Día de los Muertos - El Paso Museum of Art
📅 November 2
⏲11am - 3pm
Can’t wait to see all you there!
Mariposas de Vida: Celebrating Dia de los Muertos with Butterflies
💀🦋Celebrate Dia de los Muertos inside our Castner Range Exhibit. We will have an enchanting butterfly hands-on activity. Join us to create beautiful butterflies that symbolize the spirit of our loved ones. Perfect for all ages. 🦋✨
📅 October 31 & November 1
Mescalero Apache Presentation
Join us for a special evening with Joey Padilla, a traditional medicine man and the director of the Mescalero Tribal Museum and Cultural Center. Listen to Joey share the Mescalero Apache Origin Story, as well as about Culture and Lifeways. Learn about the story of the Mountain Spirit Dance (Gahé Ndé) that will be happening at Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site with the collaboration of the Mares Family. Don't miss this unique opportunity to embrace indigenous traditions.
📆November 7
⌚4-6:00PM
🏛️4301 Transmountain
Images: Apache camp in Mescalero, NM, By Otis Aultman. Courtesy of the El Paso Public Library, Joey Padilla at the El Paso Museum of Archaeology. Courtesy of EPMArch.
Discovering Nature
📢It’s going to be Discovering Nature Time Again!🌱🫛
✨🌽Join us for a fun-filled session exploring the magical world of the 3 Sisters Plants: corn, beans, and squash! We will create our own ears of corn with beads, “plant” a 3 sisters garden and dive into captivating stories that celebrate these incredible plants! Let’s plant some creativity together!🌾🖌️
📅 November 9
⏲9am - 10:30am & 11am - 12:30pm
This FREE monthly program is designed for 4, 5, and 6 year-olds. ✨
💌Spaces are limited, email [email protected] to secure your spot!
Can’t wait to see all you there!
The El Paso Archaeological Society & El Paso Museum of Archaeology Present:
"Pre-Hispanic Copper Artifacts Recovered from the Gila National Forest" by Christopher D. Adams, East Zone Archaeologist, Gila Forrest
📆November 16
⌚2:00PM
🏛️4301 Transmountain
BIOGRAPHY: Christopher Adams has been a professional archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service for 28 years and has been working in Southwestern archaeology for well over 38 years. Mr. Adams received his B.A. from Arizona State University. His specialty is using metal detecting technology on a vast array of historical sites for the last 40 years in North America and is one of the leading experts in the Spanish Colonial Period and Apache Indian War Period sites and artifact identification in the American Southwest. Christopher Adams has worked on numerous Spanish, Apache, U.S. Military, Civil War battlefield projects in New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Virginia
ASTRACT: The discovery of a native copper nugget/ore in 2009 on a Classic Mimbres pueblo site in the Black Range Mountains of the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico, initiated a new archaeological investigation for Pre-Hispanic copper artifacts in the Mimbres area. This preliminary investigation involved surveying a small sample of Mimbres prehistoric sites using the latest metal sensing technology available, utilizing experienced/trained metal sensing operators and documenting the geographic distribution of native and/or worked copper artifacts within the Mimbres Cultural area of the Gila National Forest. This is the first formal archaeological investigation that has employed the use of metal sensing technology on Mimbres sites in the American Southwest and more importantly this newly discovered evidence of Mimbres exploitation of native copper is extremely important for the Mimbres Cultural area. This paper will present the results of the metal sensing survey but more importantly it will focus on the Mimbres exploitation of natural and/or worked copper nuggets, fragmented/crushed copper bells, copper fetishes and other copper artifacts that have been recently discovered in Mimbres area dating from A.D. 850 – A.D. 1130.