Board Chair Susan Graham Garretson welcomes guests

The MNA Board of Trustees is introduced

MNA Director Robert Breunig discusses the significance of the Easton Collection Center

Architect Jim Roberts describes the new building

Havasupai elder, James Uqualla, prepares to do a blessing

James Uqualla blesses the Earth with water from a Havasupai spring

Diné (Navajo) Medicine Man, Jones Benally, describes his blessings

Yavapai Apache elder Vincent Randall blesses MNA Director Robert Breunig

Vincent Randall blesses a piece of sandstone that will be placed under the foundation

Hopi elder Wilton Kooyahoema explains his blessings

Wilton Kooyahoema blesses the site with hooma, ceremonial corn meal

Left to right: Architect Jim Roberts, MNA Director Robert Breunig, Elizabeth Easton, Harry Easton

Left to Right: Architect Jim Roberts; Robert Breunig; Mike Thomas, KCS (Kinney Constructions Services); Tim Kinney, Owner, KCS; Elizabeth Easton; Hary Easton; and Susan Garretson

Left to right: Alexander L. Lindsay, former Curator of anthropology; Elizabeth Easton; Harry Easton

Janet Gillette, Associate Collections Manager, with a photomural of the 1953 groundbreaking of the Administration Building

Director Robert Breunig and Hopi tribal members: Michael Kabotie, Wilton Kooyahoema, Delbridge Honanie, and Barbara Poley

All photos by Dallas Larsen