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El Paso Museum of History present People of the Sun

El Paso Museum of History present People of the Sun an exhibition on view through September 07, 2014.

Dutch anthropologist Herman Frederik Carel Ten Kate visited the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo in December, 1882, while he was engaged in fieldwork among the American Indians. Like other early anthropologists, he collected both information and artifacts, many of which are now curated by the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology) in Leiden, Netherlands. Four Tigua items are among this collection: a drum and drumstick, a war shield, a rattle and the raw material for another rattle, and a pair of moccasins, all purchased from War Captain Bernardo Holguin. www.elpasotexas.gov/history/