Decorative art that ranks among the most beautiful created by primitive peoples. Endlessly adaptable motifs revolving around the "Rain Bird" motif depicted in 48 plates, 26 in 2 colors. Stunning, immensely useful designs incorporating the "thunderbird" — first seen on 18th-century Zuni pottery. Tribal variations. 176 illustrations.

Pueblo Designs: The "Rain Bird"

Arts & Photography

Mera, H. P.

Graphic Design

Dover Publications

Rich source chronicles evolution of distinctive Native American craft, exploring origins, history, graphic content, and techniques.

Pueblo Indian Embroidery (Dover Books on the American Indians)

History

Americas

Navajo textile arts

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Peregrine Smith

Pueblo Indian Embroidery

Rich source chronicles evolution of distinctive Native American craft, exploring origins, history, graphic content, and techniques.

Pueblo Indian embroidery

William Gannon

Spanish-American Blanketry: Its Relationship to Aboriginal Weaving in the Southwest

In 1984, while studying textiles in the collections of the School of American Research, Kate Peck Kent discovered a manuscript on Spanish-American weaving by the late H.P. Mera, curator of archaeology at Santa Fe's Lab of Anthropology. This forgotten manuscript describes the origin and history of the distinctive textiles woven by Spanish-Americans in New Mexico.Kate Peck Kent was professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Denver, a research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a resident scholar at the School of American Research. Dr. Kent has also written Pueblo Indian Textiles and Navajo Weaving: Three Centuries of Change which describes and interprets the textile collections at the School of American Research's Indian Arts Research Center.

Spanish-American blanketry: Its relationship to aboriginal weaving in the Southwest

History & Criticism

School of American Research Press

In 1984, while studying textiles in the collections of the School of American Research, Kate Peck Kent discovered a manuscript on Spanish-American weaving by the late H.P. Mera, curator of archaeology at Santa Fe's Lab of Anthropology. This forgotten manuscript describes the origin and history of the distinctive textiles woven by Spanish-Americans in New Mexico.
Kate Peck Kent was professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Denver, a research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a resident scholar at the School of American Research. Dr. Kent has also written Pueblo Indian Textiles and Navajo Weaving: Three Centuries of Change which describes and interprets the textile collections at the School of American Research's Indian Arts Research Center.

School for Advanced Research Press

Style Trends of Pueblo Pottery, 1500-1840

Avanyu Pub

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Kessinger Publishing

Style Trends Of Pueblo Pottery In The Rio Grande And Little Colorado Cultural Areas From The Sixteenth To The Nineteenth Century

Comics & Graphic Novels

How To Create Comics & Manga

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