The Missions of Northern Sonora
A 1935 Field Documentation
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Named in Stone and Sky
Arizona is a land whose natural beauty many have sought to capture in words.
Gregory McNamee has combed a body of literature that spans centuries to create this anthology of writings on the widely varied landscapes of Arizona. Named in Stone and Sky includes works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; represents Native ...
Born a Chief
The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa, as told to Alfred F. Whiting
Being Comanche
The Social History of an American Indian Community
A Full Life in a Small Place and Other Essays from a Desert Garden
The Hatchet's Blood
Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life
The Hawk Is Hungry and Other Stories
State and Reservation
New Perspectives on Federal Indian Policy
Plaintext
Essays
New Chicana/Chicano Writing, Volume 2
Desert Landscaping
How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest
Western Apache Language and Culture
Essays in Linguistic Anthropology
The Dawn of Belief
Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe
Songs My Mother Sang to Me
An Oral History of Mexican American Women
Soldiers of the Virgin
In the early summer of 1712, a young Maya woman from the village of Cancuc in southern Mexico encountered an apparition of the Virgin Mary while walking in the forest. The miracle soon attracted Indian pilgrims from pueblos throughout the highlands of Chiapas. When alarmed Spanish authorities stepped in to put a stop to the ...
Chilies to Chocolate
Food the Americas Gave the World
Blazing the Trail
Waymarks in the Exploration of Symbols
The Portable Radio in American Life
Los Tucsonenses
The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854–1941
No Short Journeys
The Interplay of Cultures in the History and Literature of the Borderlands
Doing What the Day Brought
An Oral History of Arizona Women
Kachina Dolls
Much has been written about the popular kachina dolls carved by the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona, but little has been revealed about the artistry behind them. Now Helga Teiwes describes the development of this art form from early traditional styles to the action-style kachina dolls made popular in galleries throughout the world, and on to the kachina sculptures that have evolved in the last half of the 1980s.
Teiwes explains the role of the Katsina spirit in Hopi religion and that of the kachina dollthe carved representation of a Katsinain the ritual and economic life of the Hopis. In tracing the history of the kachina doll in Hopi culture, she shows how these wooden figures have changed since carvers came to be influenced by their marketability among Anglos and how their carving has been characterized by increasingly refined techniques.
Unique to this book are Teiwes's description of the most recent trends in kachina doll carving and her profiles of twenty-seven modern carvers, including such nationally known artists as Alvin James Makya and Cecil Calnimptewa. Enhancing the text are more than one hundred photographs, including twenty-five breathtaking color plates that bring to life the latest examples of this popular art form.
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations
Navajo Trader
Musui's Story
The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
The View from Officers' Row
Army Perceptions of Western Indians
Archaeomagnetic Dating
A Legacy of Change
Historic Human Impact on Vegetation in the Arizona Borderlands
The Question of the Commons
The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
