Folk Art Museum

Santa Fe has 30+ museums, 4 of which are on Museum Hill, 3 miles from downtown.  The Museum of International Folk Art which we visited yesterday is 1 of the 4.  Our guide book says it's 'arguably the best' of the bunch.  Trish and I would be on the opposing side in that argument.  She would argue less loudly than I, due to the display of Amish quilts.

Sculptures in front of the Native Ats Museum, above and below.

I had to shoot the huge native dancer in the butt since a frontal shot would have been directly into the sun.  I hope he wasn't offended.

Bronze on left, stone on right, both life-sized and lovely.

Above and below pix are part of a large Japanese kites display.

Amish quilts.  

The Amish believe that plain, simple things are best.  

The quilts are beautiful regardless.  One hopes that the quilters weren't banned from the community because the quilts are colored instead of black and white.

'Over 100,000 pieces from over 100 countries' says the guide book.

True enough.  But 99,000 of those pieces are miniatures 1"- 8" high.

The pix above and the 3 below are miniatures, countries of origin unknown; no labels.

In the upper left hand corner is a creche.

Pix taken through 1 of 3 small windows.  Folks in the stands are 1" tall.

Spain?

I really liked this one.  Appears to be some type of school, headmaster on raised platform on right.

Turkey?

There were catalogs and perhaps audio guides to the miniatures but we didn't bother with them.