Seventy years ago Tom Bahti, a recent graduate in anthropology from University of New Mexico, opened Ghost Ranch Trading Post at Ghost Ranch, near Abiqiui, New Mexico. That winter he moved to Tucson where he opened Tom Bahti Indian Arts. He was a widely recognized authority on Indian arts and culture and in the forefront of those supporting the modern movement in Indian art. Beginning in 1966 he wrote a trilogy of books on Southwest Indian Arts & Crafts, Tribes and Ceremonials that have sold over one million copies. His son Mark took over the store in 1972 and has also written a number of books and articles on various aspects of Indian art, culture and history and has served on the board of the Tucson Indian Center (run by and for urban Indians) since 1976 and serves on the Foundation board of the Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA) in Santa Fe. Mark and his wife, Emmi Whitehorse, continue the commitment to working with established emerging jewelry artists, painters, sculptors as well as Hopi katsina carvers, Tohono O'odham basket weavers, and Navajo rug weavers. Come visit at 119 East Palace Avenue fine Indian art for seventy years USANTA FE and TUCSON INDIAN ARTS www.bahti.com Seventy years ago Tom Bahti, a recent graduate in anthropology from University of New Mexico, opened Ghost Ranch Trading Post at Ghost Ranch, near Abiqiui, New Mexico. That winter he moved to Tucson where he opened Tom Bahti Indian Arts. He was a widely recognized authority on Indian arts and culture and in the forefront of those supporting the modern movement in Indian art. Beginning in 1966 he wrote a trilogy of books on Southwest Indian Arts & Crafts, Tribes and Ceremonials that have sold over one million copies. His son Mark took over the store in 1972 and has also written a number of books and articles on various aspects of Indian art, culture and history and has served on the board of the Tucson Indian Center (run by and for urban Indians) since 1976 and serves on the Foundation board of the Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA) in Santa Fe. Mark and his wife, Emmi Whitehorse, continue the commitment to working with established emerging jewelry artists, painters, sculptors as well as Hopi katsina carvers, Tohono O'odham basket weavers, and Navajo rug weavers. Come visit at 119 East Palace Avenue fine Indian art for seventy years USANTA FE and TUCSON INDIAN ARTS www.bahti.com