Native American Crafts » Native American Pottery (Books) http://native-american-crafts.com Native-American-Crafts.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:13:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Peerless pottery: for centuries, Native Americans have produced pottery of intricate beauty, leading to a treasure trove of exquisite items for … An article from: Antiques Roadshow Insider http://native-american-crafts.com/peerless-pottery-for-centuries-native-americans-have-produced-pottery-of-intricate-beauty-leading-to-a-treasure-trove-of-exquisite-items-for-an-article-from-antiques-roadshow-insider/ http://native-american-crafts.com/peerless-pottery-for-centuries-native-americans-have-produced-pottery-of-intricate-beauty-leading-to-a-treasure-trove-of-exquisite-items-for-an-article-from-antiques-roadshow-insider/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:13:30 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/peerless-pottery-for-centuries-native-americans-have-produced-pottery-of-intricate-beauty-leading-to-a-treasure-trove-of-exquisite-items-for-an-article-from-antiques-roadshow-insider/

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This digital document is an article from Antiques Roadshow Insider, published by Belvoir Media Group, LLC on August 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1420 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Peerless pottery: for centuries, Native Americans have produced pottery of intricate beauty, leading to a treasure trove of exquisite items for today’s collectors.(TRIBAL ARTS)
Author: Jerry Shaver
Publication: Antiques Roadshow Insider (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher: Belvoir Media Group, LLC
Volume: 10 Issue: 8 Page: 9(4)

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Ceramic Production in the American Southwest http://native-american-crafts.com/ceramic-production-in-the-american-southwest/ http://native-american-crafts.com/ceramic-production-in-the-american-southwest/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:14:36 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/ceramic-production-in-the-american-southwest/

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Southwestern ceramics have always been admired for their variety and aesthetic beauty. Although ceramics are most often used for placing the peoples who produced them in time, they can also provide important clues to past economic organization. This volume covers nearly 1000 years of southwestern prehistory and history, focusing on ceramic production in a number of environmental and economic contexts. It brings together the best of current research to illustrate the variation in the organization of production evident in this single geographic area. The contributors use diverse research methods in their studies of vessel form and decoration. All support the conclusion that the specialized production of ceramics for exchange beyond the household was widespread. The first seven chapters focus on ceramic production in specific regions, followed by three essays that re-examine basic concepts and offer new perspectives. Because previous studies of southwestern ceramics have focused more on distribution than production, Ceramic Production in the American Southwest fills a long-felt need for scholars in that region and offers a broad-based perspective unique in the literature. The Southwest lacked high levels of sociopolitical complexity and economic differentiation, making this volume of special interest to scholars working in similar contexts and to those interested in craft production.

Ceramic Production in the American Southwest

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Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Song-Poems http://native-american-crafts.com/song-of-the-sky-versions-of-native-american-song-poems/ http://native-american-crafts.com/song-of-the-sky-versions-of-native-american-song-poems/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:14:24 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/song-of-the-sky-versions-of-native-american-song-poems/

Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Song-Poems

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Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe http://native-american-crafts.com/full-bloom-the-art-and-life-of-georgia-okeeffe/ http://native-american-crafts.com/full-bloom-the-art-and-life-of-georgia-okeeffe/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:48:56 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/full-bloom-the-art-and-life-of-georgia-okeeffe/

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“The definitive life of O’Keeffe.” —Hilton Kramer, Los Angeles Times

Georgia O’Keefe (1887?-1986) was one of the most successful American artists of the twentieth century: her arresting paintings of enormous, intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes, and stark white cow skulls are seminal works of modern art. But behind O’Keeffe’s bold work and celebrity was a woman misunderstood by even her most ardent admirers. This large, finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth. 16 pages of b/w illustrations, 32 pages of color.

Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe

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Discover Native America: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah http://native-american-crafts.com/discover-native-america-arizona-colorado-new-mexico-and-utah/ http://native-american-crafts.com/discover-native-america-arizona-colorado-new-mexico-and-utah/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:13:00 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/discover-native-america-arizona-colorado-new-mexico-and-utah/

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The Ancient Pueblo people, also known mistakenly as the Anasazi, were a prehistoric Native American culture located around the present day ‘Four Corners’ areas of the Southwest United States. This area encompasses the Colorado Plateau, and extends from central New Mexico to southern Nevada, Utah and Arizona. The topography of this panoramic region varies greatly, including high plateaus, vast horizontal mesas, sleep walled canyons, and sandstone windows and bridges sculpted by water erosion. In cliff areas with harder stone, rock overhangs formed and served as building sites for adobe dwellings often accessible only by rope or rock climbing. Numerous national parks and monuments such as Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, Sunset Crater and Chaco Canyon provide stunning scenery and a well-preserved window into the area’s fascinating prehistoric past.Divided geographically, this expanded edition includes tips on visiting reservations, attending ceremonies, buying arts and crafts, and adjusting to ‘Indian time’. The revised format provides easy reader access to a wealth of information, and includes dozens of new sites, selected places to stay, eat and shop, a calendar of various powwows and other tribal ceremonies, a section on language, points of interest, maps, and 16 pages of full colour photographs. This book also examines locations such as the Gila Cliff Dwellings Monument, the Taos Pueblo, and The Denver Art Museum, which houses an extensive collection of North American native art.

Discover Native America: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

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Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions http://native-american-crafts.com/pottery-of-the-southwest-ancient-art-and-modern-traditions/ http://native-american-crafts.com/pottery-of-the-southwest-ancient-art-and-modern-traditions/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:49:29 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/pottery-of-the-southwest-ancient-art-and-modern-traditions/

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For almost two thousand years, the pottery made by the Indians of America’s Southwest has remained a vital art. Today, more than twenty Pueblos and tribes make pottery within the tradition, each with a distinctive style. Many of those local styles have persisted for hundreds of years. In prehistory, beautiful pieces had high trade value, and the finest contemporary pieces command prices appropriate to fine art of any type. Potters like Nampeyo, Maria Martinez and Juan Quezada achieved worldwide fame. Yet despite its history and the skill of its artists, Southwestern Indian pottery remains surprisingly easy to collect. This book introduces the art from its beginnings to the present and displays examples that describe how America’s first important art form grew into one of the world’s most accessible treasures.

Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions

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Tammy Garcia, Form without Boundaries http://native-american-crafts.com/tammy-garcia-form-without-boundaries/ http://native-american-crafts.com/tammy-garcia-form-without-boundaries/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:48:09 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/tammy-garcia-form-without-boundaries/

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Tammy Garcia, Form Without Boundaries, is a collection of images portraying Tammy’s extraordinary talent. She is regarded as the foremost Native American potter in the world today and in this magnificent coffeetable book provides glimpses of her sculpture and jewelry. Today, collectors buy her work by lottery as her pieces have become so sought after and her production for the public market is limited. The book tells of her heritage as a fourth generation Santa Clara pueblo potter and what inspires this beautiful, young, soft-spoken artisan. The narrative also introduces the layperson to pottery and the Native American culture. It is written by acknowledged experts in the field of Native American culture, art and collections. The book is a spectacular result of collaboration between an artist and those who are committed to preserving a culture through museums, collections and writing. This is the most dramatic, most beautiful,coffeetable book that will be available for the fall in 2003.

Tammy Garcia, Form without Boundaries

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The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Medio Period Communities of Northwestern Chihuahua http://native-american-crafts.com/the-neighbors-of-casas-grandes-medio-period-communities-of-northwestern-chihuahua/ http://native-american-crafts.com/the-neighbors-of-casas-grandes-medio-period-communities-of-northwestern-chihuahua/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:47:58 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/the-neighbors-of-casas-grandes-medio-period-communities-of-northwestern-chihuahua/

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Casas Grandes, or Paquimé, in northwestern Mexico was of one of the few socially complex prehistoric civilizations in North America. Now, based on more than a decade of surveys, excavations, and field work, Michael Whalen and Paul Minnis provide a comprehensive new look at Casas Grandes and its surrounding communities in The Neighbors of Casas Grandes.

This volume provides a fascinating and detailed look into the culture of the Casas Grandes area, involving not just the research of the architecture and artifacts left behind but also the ecology of the area. The authors’ research reveals the complex relationship Casas Grandes had with its neighbors, varying from very direct contact with some communities to more indirect links with others. Important internal influences on the area’s development come to light and population sizes throughout the period demonstrate the absorption of the surrounding populations into Casas Grandes as it reached the peak of its power in the region.

New discoveries suggest the need to revise the previously held beliefs about the age of Casas Grandes and the dates of its rise to power. This ancient civilization may have developed as early as 1180 AD. Such breakthroughs provide fresh insight about not only Casas Grandes but the nearby settlements as well. The Neighbors of Casas Grandes is an important and vital piece of primary field research for all those interested in the Southwest’s archaelogy and history. Its contribution to the knowledge of the Casas Grandes region is monumental in helping us better understand the society that once flourished there.

The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Medio Period Communities of Northwestern Chihuahua

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The Spark in the Stone: Skills and Projects from the Native American Tradition http://native-american-crafts.com/the-spark-in-the-stone-skills-and-projects-from-the-native-american-tradition/ http://native-american-crafts.com/the-spark-in-the-stone-skills-and-projects-from-the-native-american-tradition/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:01:42 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/the-spark-in-the-stone-skills-and-projects-from-the-native-american-tradition/

  • Paperback with cover of Native American designs and crafts.

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Introduces the highly successful wilderness technology possessed by Indians of North America in the millenia before white settlement. Includes projects for making simple tools, weaving, and crafting moccasins and willow baskets.

The Spark in the Stone: Skills and Projects from the Native American Tradition

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The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages http://native-american-crafts.com/the-moche-of-ancient-peru-media-and-messages/ http://native-american-crafts.com/the-moche-of-ancient-peru-media-and-messages/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:48:51 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/the-moche-of-ancient-peru-media-and-messages/

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Peru’s ancient Moche culture is represented in a magnificent collection of artifacts at Harvard’s Peabody Museum. In this richly illustrated volume, Jeffrey Quilter presents a fascinating introduction to this intriguing culture and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.

Quilter utilizes the Peabody’s collection as a means to investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly ceramics, to convey messages about their lives and beliefs. His presentation provides a critical examination and rethinking of many of the commonly held interpretations of Moche artifacts and their imagery, raising important issues of art production and its role in ancient and modern societies.

The most up-to-date monograph available on the Moche—and the first extensive discussion of the Peabody Museum’s collection of Moche ceramics—this volume provides an introduction for the general reader and contributes to ongoing scholarly discussions. Quilter’s fresh reading of Moche visual imagery raises new questions about the art and culture of ancient Peru.

The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages

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