Dale Kronkright, Conservator at the O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, so not an entomologist. Those clubbed, segmented antennae, size and elongation certainly suggest an adult drugstore beetle - Stegobium paniceum <https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/stored/drugstore_beetle.htm> to me. Eager to read what the experts think. IF it is a Drugstore beetle, I remember from my days working in Cambridge and Honolulu that they ate EVERYTHING as larvae, even through thin metal spice containers to get at the food source. I have no idea how they did it but I can confirm that they got into them, laid eggs, fed as larvae and exited as adults. Search for "Drugstore Beetle" at the MuseumPests Airtable Fact Sheets, https://airtable.com/shrwW9TvxEPzxBgFQ/tblfPxSscLxUyo9c5/viwD3Z7bJwp8Qh66V/recpR0aTHvvAJDC2a?backgroundColor=green&viewControls=on
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