Arizona State Museum Analysis

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Arizona State Museum. Today, for the first trip, I have chosen to visit Arizona State Museum, since it is convenient for me to walk for few minutes to invigorate my brain. It is a big building with post modern architecture design, having plenty of showings about the civilization and lifestyle of Arizona region. Before entering the museum, I expected learning about the many cultures and types of ethnic groups that lived and represented the Sonoran region throughout the centuries. As I entered to the museum, it was peaceful and empty, so that I could focus easily for the exhibits co-relating to the topic of our class. Every room depicted and explained about different cultures, ways of living of ethnic groups in various of times of history. Each screen on every exhibits illustrated the specialties of different cultures. At first, it seemed dull to me, but as I continued reading the statements of the exhibits, I fully understood how versatile the dwellers of Sonoran region were. After visiting the Arizona State museum, my perspective about the …show more content…
Perhaps, unlike Tohono O’odham people because of the good environment, the leaders and the clan members of Navajo tribe had been focusing on the clan atmosphere and on reinforcing their tribe. The nature allowed them to be more mobile, “The mountain homelands of the Tonto, White Mountain and San Carlos Apaches range from desert ridges to forest-covered peaks.” From February to June, after the harvesting season, men of the tribe used to go hunting and raiding to others land. In the meantime, women used to look after the children and the properties. During the Summer and Autumn, they usually, harvest the plants and take care of the livestock. Even though they had fine living conditions, Apache people admired their land and the mother

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