This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
The Navajo Shirt and the Birth of an American Indian Museum
A Navajo worker mends a colored shirt, inspiring a mining engineer to buy it for $5. That shirt becomes the seed of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, now the famed collection in New York. The article traces founder George Gustave Heye and the museum’s growth through international expeditions and its unique display system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest
New York City
America
George Gustave Heye
Gustave Heye
Standard Oil
School of Mines
Columbia
Heye
Mr. Heye
Joseph Keppler
Puck
New York
Indiana
Fifth Avenue
South America
Marshall H. Saville
Saville
Ecuador
Pizarro
Peru
West Indies
Cuba
Virgin Islands
The
Hispanic Society
American Geographical Society
New World
American Numismatic Society