The exhibition Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest is co-curated by Peter Whiteley, Curator of North American Ethnology in the Museum's Division of Anthropology, and Lois Dubin, lecturer, curator, and author of several authoritative books on Native American jewelry. Advising artists are Jim Hart and Jesse Monongya.

The Totems to Turquoise website was designed by Wichar Jiempreecha.