Pueblo Indian Textiles

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

KENT, KATE PECK

Crafts & Hobbies

School of American Research Press

"For the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, the tradition of weaving and decorating textiles reaches almost two thousand years into the past. Yet because the Pueblos seldom make their traditional textiles for sale to visitors and collectors, their weaving and embroidery have long been overshadowed in popular attention by the better known textiles of the Navajos. This heavily illustrated study, a long overdue and long awaited volume on Pueblo textiles. based on the splendid collection at the School of American Research, examines all forms of Pueblo textiles and describes their unique weaving processes, their wools, and - whenever possible - the symbolic and cultural meaning that textiles and their designs have held for the Pueblo peoples. This volume is certain to become a basic reference tool for anyone interested in American Indian textiles. 130 pages, 65 b/w and 24 color photographs, 15 drawings."

Pueblo Indian Textiles: A Living Tradition (Studies in American Indian Art)

Kent, Kate

Arts & Photography

David Grant Noble has assembled a collection of nine essays written for the nonspecialist by scholars who shed new light and offer new speculation on the intriguing prehistoric Chaco culture. The essays cover archaelology on the Canyon; Chacoan art, architechture, rock art and astronomy; the puzzling network of roads; and the Navajos who live in the area today.

New Light on Chaco Canyon

Noble, David Grant

Travel

Dust jacket notes: "For some three hundred years, Navajo Indian weavers have borrowed techniques, materials, and design styles from their neighbors in the American Southwest. Yet they never merely copied, they creatively chose and modified traits to suit their own needs and tastes. They have been practical, too, always keeping an eye fixed on the marketplace and the changing preferences of the consumer. This book traces the history of Navajo weaving from about 1950, when loom processes were learned from the Pueblo Indians, to the present day of regional styles and commercial markets. It describes changes in yarns, dyes, designs, and types of textiles resulting from trade with Spanish-Americans, Mexicans, and finally Anglo-Americans. In a highly original conclusion, the author describes the cultural traits that allowed the Navajos to accept stylistic change to readily, and she searches for the elements native to Navajo aesthetic values. This is a fascinating account for anyone who has admired the beauty and technical skill that have given Navajo weaving its tremendous popularity."

Navajo Weaving: Three Centuries of Change (Studies in American Indian Art)

History & Criticism

Talking With the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery

Talking with the clay: The art of Pueblo pottery

Stephen Trimble

Antiques & Collectibles

Villages of Hispanic New Mexico

History

Nancy Hunter Warren

Americas

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

Mera, H. P.

Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest

Wills, W. H.

Few cities in America can claim as long and fascinating a history as Santa Fe, New Mexico. Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans and Anglo-Americans have all left their marks here through time. This new history of Santa Fe is written for a general audience by scholars whose essays focus on the colorful individuals and events that shaped the ancient capital.

Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City

David Grant Noble (Editor)

Acoma and Laguna Pottery

Dillingham, Rick

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