While at Fort Bayard, I picked up a brochure for Mimbres Culture Heritage Site. While the history of the archaeological work goes back for more than a century (the Mimbres village for a couple thousand years), it is a small and relatively new non-profit with two buildings and a small barn plus an outbuilding. It is completely run by volunteers.
Before going inside, we noticed that there were a lot of hummingbirds and there was a large sign advertising their recently held hummingbird festival. There were smaller signs with info about training and banding the birds, plus there were many hummingbird feeders and hummingbirds.
We checked into the museum, paid the entrance fee and decided to explore the short trail before going inside the buildings. Behind the main building, there was a cute mobile medicine shop.
At the start of the trail, there is info about the archaeological site and the history of the work done there. We had seen references to this when we visited the Western New Mexico University Museum several weeks ago: http://travelswithsherpatom.blogspot.com/2019/07/western-new-mexico-university-museum.html The formal archaeological work was done in 1929-1931 and in the 1970s.
We had been told about the resident cat and were greeted as we started the trail. He is so friendly, there are signs in the parking lot asking you to make sure the cat is not in your car before you leave.
The self guided tour shows where different parts of the village remains are but they are completely overgrown today.
Along the trail, there are informational signs about the native plants.
There are also signs about the different structures found here when they we doing the formal digging.
Instead of building full sized replicas of the buildings, they have small replicas on tables to show what the original buildings would have looked like.
There was a side trail that went down to the river (it was not open when we were there) where there was info about local fauna (including our favorite javelinas) under a ramada.
After completing the short quarter mile trail, we stopped in the small barn to see this well kept carriage.
We then went into the Doctor Wood house. They are still working on rehabbing this building, but they have the room used as his medical office open and filled with relics from the 1800s and early 1900s.
There were a couple of the medical bags used when making house calls.
In the main building, there was one room dedicated to the history of the Mimbres people including much about the characteristic black on white pottery.
There was a nice table size replica showing how the entire village would have looked.
In another room they had displays of the Native American, Mexican, ranchers and miners that were in Mimbres at one time.
Among other things, the gift shop had nice flags from the hummingbird festival.
We then drove back into Silver City for lunch at the Tapas Tree Grill where we had some tasty glompers and salads (click on the link to see the menu and learn about glompers). There was no tapestry but they had plentyof tapas in Tapas Tree Grill.
And after lunch, we noticed the mint green Mint Chip Creamery ice cream truck.
Before going inside, we noticed that there were a lot of hummingbirds and there was a large sign advertising their recently held hummingbird festival. There were smaller signs with info about training and banding the birds, plus there were many hummingbird feeders and hummingbirds.
We checked into the museum, paid the entrance fee and decided to explore the short trail before going inside the buildings. Behind the main building, there was a cute mobile medicine shop.
At the start of the trail, there is info about the archaeological site and the history of the work done there. We had seen references to this when we visited the Western New Mexico University Museum several weeks ago: http://travelswithsherpatom.blogspot.com/2019/07/western-new-mexico-university-museum.html The formal archaeological work was done in 1929-1931 and in the 1970s.
We had been told about the resident cat and were greeted as we started the trail. He is so friendly, there are signs in the parking lot asking you to make sure the cat is not in your car before you leave.
The self guided tour shows where different parts of the village remains are but they are completely overgrown today.
Along the trail, there are informational signs about the native plants.
There are also signs about the different structures found here when they we doing the formal digging.
Instead of building full sized replicas of the buildings, they have small replicas on tables to show what the original buildings would have looked like.
There was a side trail that went down to the river (it was not open when we were there) where there was info about local fauna (including our favorite javelinas) under a ramada.
After completing the short quarter mile trail, we stopped in the small barn to see this well kept carriage.
There were a couple of the medical bags used when making house calls.
In the main building, there was one room dedicated to the history of the Mimbres people including much about the characteristic black on white pottery.
There was a nice table size replica showing how the entire village would have looked.
In another room they had displays of the Native American, Mexican, ranchers and miners that were in Mimbres at one time.
Among other things, the gift shop had nice flags from the hummingbird festival.
We then drove back into Silver City for lunch at the Tapas Tree Grill where we had some tasty glompers and salads (click on the link to see the menu and learn about glompers). There was no tapestry but they had plentyof tapas in Tapas Tree Grill.
And after lunch, we noticed the mint green Mint Chip Creamery ice cream truck.
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