Pueblo Pottery Maine

Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham, (Foreword by J. J. Brody)

Beautifully published book with wonderful photographs, insightful quotes from the artists, family genealogical charts and maps of the pueblos. Considered a standard book for collectors.

Pueblo Pottery Families by Lillian Peaster

A good beginning book that travels well if you are on vacation in the Southwest. Tells you the basics of who's who and what's what. Includes portraits, color photographs of pottery, and family trees. Again, copyright is 1997 so don't expect those family trees to tell it all. There are many excellent potters not found in this book.

Santa Clara Pottery Today, Vol. 29 by Betty LaFree

Step by step information and images showing how Santa Clara pottery is produced from digging the clay, shaping (techniques), incising (the tools), firing (heat, fuel) and more. Includes great appendixes on the evolution of Santa Clara pottery, design analysis and a list of active potters plus a glossary of terms and a very good bibliography. Everything you could want to know about Santa Clara pottery today.

Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery by Douglas Congdon-Martin

Figurative pottery appeared in the Southwest as early as 300 B.C. and as early as 400 A.D. among the Anasazi who are the predecessors of today's Pueblo Indians. The creator of the Storyteller form is Helen Cordero of the Cochiti Pueblo who created the first Storyteller in 1964 Today Storytellers are made by Cochiti and by people from all the surrounding pueblos as well as other peoples such as the Navajo, Blackfoot and Hispanics. The book is pages of color photographs depicting work from all the different creators plus how the process is done. Very definitive and well priced.

All That Glitters: The Emergence of Native American Micaceous Art Pottery in Northern New Mexico by Duane Anderson

An excellent book by Duane Anderson with a fore ward by Lonnie Vigil. The book to learn more about the origins of micaceous pottery and its evolution into a pottery genre that is gaining in popularity very quickly. Published by the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Native Peoples Magazine

Excellent articles about Native American events, art, crafts, music and overall culture by some of the best writers in the Southwest. This publication is better than ever with expanded coverage on the arts and events among the indigenous peoples of the Western hemisphere! Subscribe now to Native Peoples magazine and you'll receive 6 beautiful issues during the coming year. It's a great deal for only $19.95.

Internet Links

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

The Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association (ATADA)

Pottery by American Indian Women

Acoma women gathering at a sacred cistern ca. 1910, photograph by Edward S. Curtis

A great article with wonderful historical photographs

Heard Museum of Native American Culture

Logan Museum: Ancient Cultures of the Southwest

The Logan Museum index provides direct access to all of the individual ancient Southwestern pottery types represented in the museum. Their pottery checklist is based on Harold S. Colton's Check List of Southwestern Pottery Types, published in 1965. Its purpose was to provide a breakdown of the many ancient types and to organize them into wares and series.

• Paleobree - a free and confidential information service for collectors of tribal art who purchase on the internet.
• Tribal Arts Forum - dedicated to tribal arts of the world, where collectors can share their enthusiasm for these beautiful, magical objects.
• Splendid Heritage - public viewing of more than 500 superb pieces from the John and Marva Warnock Collection
• Native Tech: A Site Dedicated to Native American Technology (Eastern Woodlands Region) with Great List of Links to Native American Resources, maintained by Tara Prindle, U of Connecticut.
• The Tribal Beat: Mark Johnson's Blog covering the world of Tribal Art
• The National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institute
• National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institute
• Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, AZ
• Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, NM
• The Maxwell Anthropology Museum at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM
• Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
• The Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, CA.
• Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, NM
• http://theftreports.com theft reports from the antiques and collectibles industry
• Women Artists of the American West
• McClung Museum
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
• Southwest Museum: Native Cultures of the Americas
• Indian Museum Arizona State Museum
• Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
• Indian Pueblo Culture Center
• Museum of New Mexico
• Western New Mexico University Museum
• Philbrook Museum of Art
• Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
• Information on Individual Native American Nations
• Native American Websites
• Native American Resources
• Mata Ortiz Newsletter: Exhibits & lectures throughout the West
• Native American Technology and Art - An internet resource for indigenous ethno-technology focusing on the arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples.
• Abbe Museum - Celebrating Maine's Native American Heritage
• First People of America and Canada : Turtle Island - Child friendly site. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 2000+ pictures, free clip art and more
• Southwestern Association for Indian Arts - The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA), sponsor of the Santa Fe Indian Market, is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to promoting Native American art and cultural heritage.
• School of American Research - A center for advanced study in anthropology, the humanities, and Native American art.
• The Indian Arts and Crafts Association (IACA) is a not-for-profit organization established in 1974 to support the ethical promotion and protection of authentic Native American art and culture.

Several of the photographs on this site are attributed to Edward S. Curtis who, in 1896, began a life-long project of recording images and creating a text to document the Native Americans of North America. The project was completed in1930 after great personal hardship. He made over 40,000 negatives using 14x17 and 11x14 inch view cameras and later a 6x8 inch reflex camera. Most of these images were recorded on glass plate negatives. The final published work consisted of 20 volumes of text accompanied by a portfolio volume of plates. Curtis felt a great urgency to his work which he described in Volume I of The North American Indian: "The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other; consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost for all time. It is that need that has inspired the present task." Edward S. Curtis, 1907 Smithsonian presentation of Edward S. Curtis photography Library of Congress: Life of Edward S. Curtis Edward S. Curtis: Dialogue  - The work of Edward Curtis has stirred heated controversy on and off Indian reservations since its rediscovery in the 1970s. Curtis has been accused of posing his subjects, fabricating traditional Indian life from his own imagination, and perpetuating the myth of the vanishing race. This site focuses on the complexity of the controversies surrounding Curtis and his work. The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis - Features the photographs and text from the 20 volumes.

 

Cochiti pottery	Photographs of pottery by Edward S. Curtis. Click on the images to see an enlargement. Below: Nampeyo of Hano as a young woman	San Ildefonso pottery
San Juan pottery		Zuni pottery

 

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