A Headdress of Pearls: Luxury Goods on the Camino Real A Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture

Archaeologist Cordelia "Dedie" Snow speaks on  “A Headdress of Pearls: Luxury Goods on the Camino Real,” at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 21, part of the Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Lectures are held in the John Gaw Meem Room. Enter through the museum's Washington Avenue entrance. Free.

Snow is a historical sites archaeologist and historian for the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division. Her work has included archaeological digs at the Palace of the Governors, where sherds of Ming Dynasty china and fine jewelry speak to the finer side of colonists’ lives. Some of those items can currently be seen in the exhibition Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time, in the Palace of the Governors.