Saints of the Southwest provides an intimate look at thirty of the most revered saints of the Southwest, photographed in both the holiest and most humble of places: an archbishop's private chapel, a roadside shrine, a church of miracles, the wall of a video store. Author Jim Griffith, long-time chronicler of the West's unique cultural and spiritual heritage, is recognized as one of the foremost folklorists in the United States. He offers a brief biography of each saint and describes why each is particularly significant to the faithful of this diverse region. Learn why distraught mothers stop to pray at a shrine to Santa Rita along southern Arizona's Santa Cruz River, and why stroke victims and arthritis sufferers make pilgrimages to the Holy Child of Atocha at Chimayo in northern New Mexico. Saints of the Southwest will touch the hearts of all seekers who find personal inspiration and affirmation in the greater Southwest. Photographs by Griffith and others accompany illustrations from devotional memorabilia and indigenous religious folk art.

Saints of the Southwest

Arts & Photography

Griffith, Jim

History & Criticism

Rio Nuevo Pub

A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings provides the best introduction to the religious images created by Navajo medicine men as part of traditional curing ceremonies. These carefully prescribed designs depict ancient Navajo gods and heroes to whom medicine men appeal to help restore their patients to harmony. Every shape and color has to be just right lest irremediable harm come to medicine man and his patient. 
Although many ancient sandpaintings designs and their accompanying chants have been lost to time, others remain a vital part of Navajo religious practice and have emerged as a dynamic art form. Navajo artists now incorporate heroes, gods, traditional design icons, and landscape features from their homeland into stunning, contemporary. 
In A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings, noted Native American arts authority Mark Bahti describes the history and development of this healing art. For each of the more than sixty individual sandpaintings included, Bahti provides the legend from which the design originated. He also explains how contemporary artists honor the traditions of their elders while breaking new ground for this fascinating art form.

A Guide to Navajo Sandpaintings

Bahti, Mark

Joe, Eugene Baatsoslanii

Baatsoslani Joe, Eugene

Kent McManis and fellow trader Robert Jeffries have provided us with the definitive introduction to one of the most popular American Indian arts -- Navajo rug weaving. It covers development from the seventeenth century through innovations of the craft today--everything from the classic Chief's Blankets, to the famous Two Grey Hills designs, to the latest in pictorial rugs. Of great help to the new collector is the list of standards in judging the quality of a rug and advice for its proper care. Fully illustrated with stunning examples of over fifty rug types.

A Guide to Navajo Weavings

Gentry, Linnea

McManis, Kent

Stancliff, Robin

Jeffries, Robert

In this special cookbook, Regina Romero recalls the traditional Hispanic cooking in the home of her grandmother, Flora Duran Romero, famous for her cooking for six decades. Over fifty classic recipes cover a wide spectrum of delicious foods: chile verde caldo (green chile stew), fideos (a delicate noodle dish), empanaditas (little turnovers), natillas (a heavenly meringue dessert that melts in the mouth), and dozens more. All ingredients and directions have been carefully updated to include modern techniques and current sources of supply. Everyone can make these dishes--even the reduced -fat tamales! Regina Romero has combined the recipes with a heart-warming memoir of this remarkable family. The result is a unique contribution to Southwest cooking.

Floras Kitchen: Recipes from a New Mexico Family : LA Cocina De Flora : Recetas De Una Familia De Nuevo Mexico

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Romero, Regina

Regional & International

McManis explains the different types of fetishes with special emphasis on the two major types; the protective and healing group and the hunting group. Also provided are family trees for the more prominent families, along with more than 200 fetishes in full-color. Perfect for those buying their first fetish or their fiftieth.

A Guide to Zuni Fetishes and Carvings: The Animals and the Carvers. Vol I

A wonderful guide book for traveling through the Hopi and Navajo nations. This book has information about both the history and the people of the area. Also contains hotel and restaurant listings, maps and other resources. b&amp;w illustrations and photos, with color photographs of Navajo rugs identified by area of origin.

Native Roads: The Complete Motoring Guide to the Navajo and Hopi Nations

Politics & Social Sciences

Kosik, Fran

Social Sciences

"... describes and depicts more than seventy of the most prominent and intriguing katsinam who appear during the Hopi ceremonial year, with full color photographs of both contemporary and historic katsina dolls."-back cover.

A Guide to Hopi Katsina Dolls

Over the past three decades an extraordinary flowering of ceramic art has been underway in a tiny village in northern Mexico. As unlikely as it may seem, this phenomenon was sparked by the genius of a villager of rare artistic talent who over many years recreated the ceramic technology of ancient pre-Columbian masterpieces. Now master potter Juan Quezada is one of several hundred potters from Mata Ortiz attracting attention from all over the world. 
Thirty of the finest examples of Mata Ortiz pottery have been selected from the popular book The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz and presented here to enjoy intact or to send to others to enjoy. Contains 30 oversized postcards.

The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz: The Postcard Book

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

For old hands or inexperienced newcomers, A Desert Gardener's Companion is the essential reference for creating and maintaining a bountiful and environmentally sensitive Southwestern garden. Master Gardener Kim Nelson provides a wealth of information in an easy-to-use seasonal format, covering what to do week-by-week in the desert climates of southern California, Arizona, southern Nevada, southern New Mexico, and west Texas.

A Desert Gardener's Companion

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

NELSON, KIM

Mirocha, Paul

Gardening & Landscape Design

The American Southwest boasts a greater variety of bird species than can be found anywhere else in North America. This makes the region a mecca for serious and casual bird lovers alike. In Birds of the American Southwest, noted authority and author Lynn Hassler Kaufman describes and depicts, in full color photographs, more than eighty-five key bird species, including several which are threatened or endangered. This indispensable field guide describes in detail the habitat, field marks, and characteristic behaviors for each species. Birds of the American Southwest also provides birders with useful tips on where to find and observe them in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts and "sky island" mountain ranges of southern Arizona and New Mexico.

Birds of the American Southwest

Science & Math

Kaufman, Lynn Hassler

Nature & Ecology

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