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P.O. Box 1171
Lancaster, California 93584 July - August - September, 2018
Volume 34, Number 3

Edra Moore INSIDE THIS ISSUE PAGE #s
(December 13, 1929 - May 21, 2018)
Dedicated to Edra Moore (Dec 13,
This issue of the FAVIM Bulletin is dedicated to 1929 May 21, 2018) 1 - 6
Edra Moore who served as the first professional Celebration 6 - 7
museum curator of Antelope Valley Indian More Museum Info, online & Facebook
Museum from 1989 to 2007. Sadly, Edra passed Friends of AVIM Directors 2017-2018
away unexpectedly on May 21, 2018. AVIM Contact Info & FAVIM Membership

Highlights from Edra Moore's Contributions
to the Museum http://www.avim.parks.ca.gov/info.shtml
BY MUSEUM CURATOR, PEGGY RONNING

While Edra was frustrated by having to develop
It would take 17 years to describe all of Edra
the Antelope .Valley Room exhibit herself, her
Moore's contributions to the museum,
exhibit has stood the test of time better than
including all the daily artifact cleaning,
the Great Basin Room exhibit. The trade
cataloging, documentation, and management.
network theme she developed is still used to
So I would like to highlight just four of the
put all the museum's exhibits in context, while
projects that she was most proud of.
the environmental determinism theme in the
Great Basin Room has become dated.
1 - One of Edra's first projects upon
arriving at the museum was to oversee the
completion of the Great Basin Regional Indian
Museum project, which was completed in
1994. Antelope Valley Indian Museum was
proposed as a Regional Indian Museum as early
as 1982, but the interpretive plan for the
exhibits was not completed until 1987. Edra
arrived in time to review the draft exhibit text
for the Great Basin Room.

After completing the Great Basin Room, State
Parks ran out of money for the Antelope Valley
Room. It was left to Edra to design, write the
label text, and assemble the objects for the
Antelope Valley Room exhibits. This exhibit
also includes rock art photographs taken by
Edra's husband David. Edra Moore in the snow at AVIM in 1990