Event Details

Experience Fort Sumner’s history, activities, and food at the annual Bosque Redondo Memorial Fiber Fair. Learn about Navajo Churro Sheep and their importance to the Diné (Navajo) people. This interactive event includes live demonstrations and hands-on wool working activities using sheared wool from the site’s flock of Navajo Churro Sheep and led by by Las Arañas Spinners and Weavers Guild. Activities throughout the day will include demonstrations about shearing, skirting, washing, carding, and spinning wool. The Wonders on Wheels mobile museum and the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Services will offer activities as well.

Admission is $7 per adult and free to children 16 years and younger, and includes access to the Memorial exhibition, “Bosque Redondo…A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival,” as well as access to all the wool-working stations and demonstrations. Admission is free for the Friends of the Bosque Redondo Memorial, Indigenous People, and Museum of New Mexico Foundation members.

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