I Am Here: Two Thousand Years of Southwest Indian Arts and Culture (Museum of New Mexico Press Series in Southwestern Culture) Whiteford, Andrew Hunter and Peckham, Stewart

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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."