I Am Here: Two Thousand Years of Southwest Indian Arts and Culture

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1989. xii, 209 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Museum of New Mexico Press Series in Southwestern Culture. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Already acknowledged as a standard, I Am Here is the most beautiful and accessible single volume on southwestern Native American Indian arts and culture available today. The Laboratory of Anthropology, the Museum of New Mexico's anthropological research unit, has amassed over its more than five decades one of the finest collections of Southwest Indian art and artifacts in the nation. Essays by noted scholars in the field illuminate the change and continuity over two thousand years of Native American basketry, textiles, pottery, and jewelry, while developing the connections between prehistoric, historic, and contemporary trends and traditions." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The Southwest: an overview, by John A. Ware; Pueblo and Athabascan baskets in the Southwest, by Andrew Hunter Whiteford; Prehistoric pottery of New Mexico, by Stewart Peckham; Historic and contemporary Pueblo pottery, by Rick Dillingham; Southwestern Indian jewelry, by Nancy Fox; The history of Southwestern weaving, by Kate Peck Kent.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.