Davis gathered the largest collection of prehistoric Indian collections in the United States.

Most of the Indian collection was a gift from John H. Hauberg, who spent four decades building his holdings.

It was the ninth highest-grossing film according to Indian collections that time, and the fourth highest-grossing film of 2010.

The Edinburgh Festival's Wagner room, then, should continue in strength, and its Indian collection, too, shows promise for the future.

Any money paid for the Indian collection must be used to benefit the collection, he ruled, not to bail out the library.

"Adding the Indian collection was designed to help the library," he said, "not to hurt it."

The Desert Museum had evolved to reflect the community's growing interest in its natural science and American Indian collections and programs.

The extensive Indian collection of the Montclair Art Museum grew out of this attitude.

But most museums with Indian collections display funerary objects.

It has one of the largest Plains Indian collections anywhere.