Corn pollen

Generously donated by Hopi, Tewa, and Havasupai- USA  in celebration of the 80^th anniversary of FAO and the inauguration of the Museum.

The packet is corn pollen, which is used for prayer offerings or for sprinkling a line in front of you in the direction away from you.  This is for the blessing of walking in beauty, good health, happiness and prosperity.  

Friendship bowl

Generously donated by Hopi, Tewa, and Havasupai- USA  in celebration of the 80^th anniversary of FAO and the inauguration of the Museum.

The Tohono O’ Odham have a friendship dance in circle: the elders, children, women, men and guest from other tribes celebrate peace and friendship. The bowl commemorate this dance: if all join hands, each offering their best, in terms of individual needs there will be a surplus in the bowl for them. In the Southwest, amongst the native people, there has always been a tradition of dancing in circles, The Tohono O'Odham have a friendship dance in which the elders, children, women, men and guests from other tribes celebrate peace and friendship. The Tohono O'Odham tribe make a bowl to commemorate the dance. One interpretation of the Friendship Bowl is that if all join hands in a friendship dance, each offering their best, in times of individual trouble and turmoil  there will be a surplus in the bowl for those in need. The strength of the other dancers in the community circle will carry those in need until they too, can dance again in celebration of life.

8 books – indigenous waterviews by Mona Polacca

Generously donated by Monia Polacca, Hopi, Tewa, and Havasupai, USA,  in celebration of the 80^th anniversary of FAO and the inauguration of the Museum.

White sage bundle

Generously donated by Hopi, Tewa, and Havasupai- USA  in celebration of the 80^th anniversary of FAO and the inauguration of the Museum.

White Sage is a plant medicine. It is burned like incense for smudging/blessing a person or a space like a room or house. It creates a clear refreshingly scent it used for clearing negative energy and brings a calming effect. It is used in many different Native American ceremonies.

Dried sage leaves and yarn

Buckskin leather pouch

Generously donated by Hopi, Tewa, and Havasupai- USA  in celebration of the 80th anniversary of FAO and the inauguration of the Museum.

Buckskin leather pouch used for carrying prayer offerings, I.e., tobacco, cedar leaves, corn pollen or corn meal, or special stones.  

Leather

Waters of peace

Generously donated by Mona Polacca, Hopi, Tewa, and Havasupai, USA,  in celebration of the 80th anniversary of FAO and the inauguration of the Museum.

Pictures of unity among Indigenous Peoples

Book

Codex Taawa

Generously donated by the author, Gerald Dawavendewa (Hopi & Cherokee), USA,  in celebration of the 80th anniversary of FAO and the inauguration of the Museum.

Codex Taawa is a series of illustrations inspired by ancient imagery that explores the cosmos of the Hopi Indigenous Peoples’. Each piece highlights a part of the Hopi tradition, stories, or knowledge. The original artworks reproduced here were black and copper ink on handmade Nepalese Lhakpa paper and were inspired by the Codices of Mesoamericans. For the Hopi, the night sky is an astronomical calendar with all of its elements used to set ceremonies, rituals, seasons, events, and measures of time. The Hopi people have observed and measured the movements in the sky to create a complex guide to assist them with existing in this world, which they know as Tuuwaqatsi—the Fourth World.

Small basket for holding vegetables

Generously donated by Hopi, Tewa, and Havasupai- USA  in celebration of the 80^th anniversary of FAO and the inauguration of the Museum.