Imperial Valley Desert Museum

The Imperial Valley Desert Museum will use funds to hire a curatorial fellow to work with an Indigenous Kumeyaay consultant. The project team will complete an assessment of ceramic artifacts in order to better understand Ancestral Kumeyaay social group activities as interpreted through their pottery assemblages. Staff will upload and record the analyses into the museum's collection management system. The resulting dataset will then be made available for request on the museum’s website for academic researchers, ceramic specialists, tribal nations, and other cultural specialists.