Imagine entering an Indian trading post in historic Santa Fe. All of the treasures of the Southwest are at your fingertips. Many beautiful objects meet your eye. Here is an Acoma pot by Lucy Lewis and there a wonderful Pomo basket from California. Nearby is a striking Navajo transitional blanket and over here is a handsome Sioux vest.

On the rug rack are Navajo textiles: Teec Nos Pos, Crystals, Yeis, Ganados. On the shelves you see baskets, kachinas, and pots. Baskets from California, the Southwest and other areas demonstrate the wonderful weaving of groups such as Pomo, Paiute, Apache, Pima, Klamath, Hupa, Karok and Tlingit. Many pots from San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Acoma, Laguna and other pueblos show their beauty.

In the showcases are Zuni, Hopi and Navajo silver and turquoise jewelry. There is wonderful Zuni inlay and needlepoint work. Well-known designers such as Loloma, Leekya, Kenneth Begay, Lambert Homer, and Preston Monagaye are represented. Turquoise is on display from the Lone Mountain, Carico Lake, Red Mountain, and Bibee mines. In nother showcase is Mexican designer jewelry by William Spratliing, Hector Aguilar, Antonio Pineda, Frederick Davis, Los Castillos, Margot de Taxco and others.

Perhaps you love beadwork ... Here are Moccasins by Apaches, Delewares, Arapahos and Utes. Men’s vests and women’s dresses by the Sioux and Nez Perce. Strike-a-lights, amulets and pipe bags show the beautiful work of the Cree and Cheyenne. There are cradles made by Pueblo Indians an Northwest Coast Indians.

How about Pueblo drums, Seminole dolls or rattles?

Of course, there are many paintings and prints by famous Southwest artists such a Leon Gaspard, Sheldon Parsons, Ila McAfee, Helen Blumenschien. Thomas Morang, Gene Kloss, Josef Bakos and many others.