Published by the School of American Research Press and distributed by UW. Scholar and ceramic artist Dillingham offers a comprehensive cultural and technical history of pottery making at the New Mexico pueblos of Acoma and Laguna, lavishly illustrated (color and b&amp;w photos), and supplemented with appendixes listing potters, detailing signs of commercial origin, and cataloging pottery housed in the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research. Commentary extends to the contemporary market and challenges facing today's potters. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Acoma & Laguna Pottery

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Dillingham, Rick

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Challenging the widely held view of the Hopi Indians of Arizona as a sober, peaceful, and cooperative people with an egalitarian social organization, Levy examines the 1906 split in the Third Mesa village of Orayvi.

Orayvi Revisited: Social Stratification in an "Egalitarian" Society

History

Levy, Jerrold E.

Americas

Great Excavations: Tales of Early Southwestern Archaeology, 1888-1939

Melinda Elliott uncovers the crucial role played by the great archaeologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in unearthing the Southwest's prehistoric past.

Elliott, Melinda

Despite the centrality of ceramics to Mojave culture, Mojave pottery is virtually unknown today. Museums have mostly small, unrepresentative, and largely undocumented collections, and the works have received little attention from scholars and collectors.This comprehensive volume brings to light the wondrously inventive clay people, mythological creatures, and effigy vessels of the Mojave people, recording this Southwest Indian ceramic art in more than 50 full-color plates, 25 color and black-and-white illustrations, and a complete catalog of the Dillingham Collection of Mojave Ceramics, one of the largest and most complete Mojave assemblages in the world, at the Indian Arts Research Center of the School of American Research. Jill Leslie Furst takes an ethnohistorical approach here, drawing on written literature about the tribe that ranges from seventeenth-century Spanish documents to ethnographic accounts from the 1970s. The stories of the Mojaves-along with descriptions of family life, gender roles, subsistence activities, clothing and personal adornment, shamanism, and the afterlife-form the context for Furst's exploration of the Mojave ceramic tradition.

Mojave Pottery, Mojave People: The Dillingham Collection of Mojave Ceramics

Furst, Jill Leslie McKeever

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