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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
The Meaning of the Built Environment
A Nonverbal Communication Approach
The Lost Gold Mine of Juan Mondragón
A Legend from New Mexico performed by Melaquías Romero
Of Earth and Little Rain
The Papago Indians
Hispanic Arizona, 1536–1856
Patarata Pottery
Classic Period Ceramics of the South-Central Gulf Coast, Veracruz, Mexico
Secrets from the Center of the World
Point of Pines
A History of the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School
Some Strange Corners of Our Country
Pedro de Rivera and the Military Regulations for Northern New Spain, 1724-1729
A Documentary History of His Frontier Inspection and the Reglamento de 1729
Hashknife Cowboy
Recollections of Mack Hughes
Quaternary Extinctions
A Prehistoric Revolution
Arizona Place Names
