Museum of the San Ramon Valley's Indian Life
The Museum of the San Ramon Valley's new Indian Life Exhibit runs Oct. 1 - Nov. 5 during regular museum hours: Tuesday through Friday from 1 - 4 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
The Indian Life program has been presented at the museum, which is housed in the original Danville Train Depot, for fifteen years.
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Before that time museum docents, who are primarily former teachers, presented California Native American artifacts and lore at most of our valley’s schools.
At the museum, California Rock Art is one of the first things you’ll see. The display was created by the late Jack Hamel and features reproductions of pictographs from Death Valley, the California Valley and Ridgecrest, California. A pictograph from the Vasco Caves on Mount Diablo shows a California condor.
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Indian baskets from the Don and Sally Phelps’ Collection are shown with many mortars and pestles that the local Tatcan Indian women used.
In the rafters of the Museum, a golden mountain lion, on loan from the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, crouches, waiting to be noticed. Not far from the lion is a black California condor with a wing spread of nine feet. The condor was created by local artist Geoff Bishop, who carved his head and created this life-like and stunning replica.
Come to the Museum of the San Ramon Valley in Danville at 205 Railroad Avenue – you’ll want to see how our valley looked one thousand years ago!
