I Am Here: Two Thousand Years of Southwest Indian Arts and Culture (Museum of New Mexico Press Series in Southwestern Culture) - Softcover

Whiteford, Andrew Hunter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890131740 ISBN 13: 9780890131749

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Pr, 1989

Synopsis

I AM HERE : TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF SOUTHWEST INDIAN ART AND CULTURE

by Labratory and Anthroplogy Museum of Indian Arts and Culture : Museum of New Mexico

"One of the nation's most extensive collections of Pueblo and Athabasca art is housed in the Museum of New Mexico's Laboratory of Anthropology. I am Here brings to light precious objects from those collections, never before popularly viewed, and traces the evolution of four important southwestern material culture traditions: basketry, textiles, ceramics, and adornment. In exploring the growth and development of these traditions, prehistoric past is connected with historic present, and centuries-old patterns of adaptation and survival in the American Southwest are illuminated."

About this title

From the Publisher:

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.

Review:

. . . constitutes a very useful reference, and a striking visual document that underscores the strength and continuity of the creative spirit among the first Southwesterners. -- The Albuquerque Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0890131740
• ISBN 13: 9780890131749
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209