This year's patch is designed based on a representation of a circular Hopi basket tray displayed in the exhibit, said museum director and BYU anthropology professor Marti Lu Allen. Scouts can satisfy most of the patch requirements the evening of the block party or through visits to the exhibition one or more times during the year. It uses physical material to support and elaborate on history. The exhibition deals with Hopi Indians' oral traditions and legends that connect the Hopi culture to prehistoric southwestern cultures, such as the Fremont, the Anasazi and the Casas Grandes. We want to promote inter-cultural harmony.
Oral histories offer a whole new realm of evidence that supplements archaeology and other sciences.
The exhibition was completely curated and organized by BYU students. In a three-term museum practice core, students learned museum skills and created original exhibitions. Other museums have paid professionals to create exhibits, but our exhibitions are produced by talented students. The Museum of Peoples and Cultures houses, cares for and performs research on archaeological and ethnographic collections from around the world, said Allen. The museum's three-part mission is to interpret and clarify the history and culture of the many peoples of the world, to convey knowledge to the scholarly community as well as to the general public and to train students in the theory and practice of operating an anthropological research museum.