Charles Lummis had a vision when he founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian 100 years ago, starting a small museum that would grow into one of the most extensive collections of Indian artifacts, totaling some 240,000. Yet the Los Angeles museum hits the century mark in a state of controversy. Last year, the Southwest closed its doors to start a three-year project to clean and catalog its collection and, perhaps, move to a new building in Griffith Park next door to the Museum of
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