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Gretchen Faulkner, Director, Hudson Museum: "The Hudson Museum's preeminent collection
is the William P. Palmer III collection, which ranges from Olmec to Aztec and includes west
Mexican tomb figures, Mayan cylinder vases, gold, jade, really incredible objects representing
a variety of Mesoamerican cultures. It also includes the northwest coast component, which
a lot of people aren't familiar with. William Palmer, rather late in his collecting career,
collected objects from the northwest coast and we have an extraordinary collection of
northwest coast ethnographic material. The Pre-Columbian collection, the Pre-Columbian
portion of the William P. Palmer collection, was the largest private collection of Pre-Columbian
objects in North America. The northwest coast collection is as well known in the scholarly
community as one of the finest small collections of northwest coast material that there is."