The Hawikku exhibit installed in 2002 is comprised of 221 representative Hawikku pieces selected by Zunis from the Hawikku collection at the Smithsonian Institute.  Hawikku is one of our most important ancestral villages because it was at Hawikku that A:shiwi first made contact with Europeans.  The exhibit describes Hawikku as it was before the Spanish invasion, during the period of Spanish influence, the Pueblo revolt, change during the 1700s through 1800s, arrival of anthropologists and ethnographers, and the controversial excavation of Hawikku.