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Feats of Clay: Carved, Etched and Incised Pottery of Santa Clara Pueblo
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 Our overview of this decorative and innovative form of pottery features a brief history of
its development, profiles on five leading artists—Tammy Garcia, Nathan Youngblood, Jennifer Moquino, Grace Medicine Flower and LuAnn Tafoya—and a comprehensive
list of others working in this field. By Gussie Fauntleroy.
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Native Nacimientos: Cross-Cultural Christmas
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 Native Nacimientos
Native artists of the Southwest use traditional pottery and carving
techniques to create charming Indian-style Nativity scenes, as seen in
the work of Mary Trujillo, Troy Sice, Paul and Dorothy Gutierrez, Gerti
Sanchez, Wilson Romero, Mary Ellen Toya, Harry Benally, Mary Lucero,
and Betty and Robert Naranjo.
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2005 September/October Collections
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 Dick
Howard was hooked on Indian art in 1954 when he made his first
purchase: a $2.60 San Juan Pueblo pot bought from Charles Eagleplume
near Estes Park, Colorado. Two weeks later, he went back and bought a
second piece, and the next month he sold his stamp collection for $22
to finance a trip to Santa Fe.
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2007 March/April Table of Contents
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Potter Jody Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo) of New Mexico displays one of
her remarkable works created using age-old traditional materials and
techniques, but finished in her own, unique style. She will be among
the featured artists demonstrating their work for visitors in the
initial Santa Fe Detours “Roads to Yesterday” tour this coming September.
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2006 November/December
By Site Editor
| Published 10/31/2006
| Music , Cultural Items , Photography/Graphics , 2006 , Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs , Diné , Comanche , Quechua , Yaqui , Sioux , Seminole , Muskogee , Apache , Tlingit , Haida , Pueblo , Dakota , Blackfeet , Navajo , Cherokee
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Musician and flutemaker Bryan Akipa (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux) seen here
holding a five-hole, old-style Dakota flute he created around 1984 from
eastern aromatic red cedar he gathered from the Badlands of South
Dakota. Photo by Don Doll, J.S.
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1999 Summer
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Woodcarver David Draper (Diné) draws from a rich tapestry of
influences, from Michelangelo to the late, legendary sculptor Allan
Houser (Chiricahua Apache). But his most powerful ideas come from his
home in the Chuska Mountains on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.
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2006 September/October
By Site Editor
| Published 09/1/2006
| Dance , 2006 , Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs , Arikara , Mandan , Hidatsu , Diné , Yakima , Wintu , Shoshone , Paiute , Nez Perce , Apache , Pueblo , Lakota , Navajo
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Tawny Hale (Navajo/Lakota) of Los Angeles, a member of the American
Indian Dance Theatre since 2003, is dressed for a ladies’ fancy shawl
dance. She is one of the many professionals presenting traditional
Native dance across the Americas.
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Splendor in the Glass
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 “You’re turning, turning. Softly. Okay, stop. Blow. Stand by in three, two, one. Torch it!”
Dancing?
Cooking? No, but to artists such as Tony Jojola and his team of
assistants, the art of glass-blowing is as choreographed as a dance and
demands the precision timing of a chef preparing crème brûlée. Native
American glass art
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2006 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2006
| Antiquities , Painting , Glass , Beadwork , Pottery , Cultural Items , Sculpture , Basketry , 2006 , Seminole , Paiute , Choctaw , Chippewa , Chickasaw , Tlingit , Aleut , Hopi , Pueblo , Navajo , Cherokee
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Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (Shawnee/Seminole) has an infectious sense of mirth
and creative energy, which he pours into his award-winning paintings,
both large and small. Photo courtesy Ackerman McQueen.
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2006 May/June On the Wind (News)
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 The long-awaited Acoma Pueblo Cultural Center and Museum will open this May. Also, other important news in the arts, education, the environment, business, politics, sports, health and other realms of life in Indian Country.
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Traditional Fashion From Seminole & Plains to Navajo & Pueblo
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 Larry Price—originally from Sheep Springs, New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation—has a passion for creating photographic images. Price didn't get serious about photography until January 2002 when he came across an article in Photographic Magazine about a photographer from Flagstaff, Arizona. The imagery in those pages moved him.
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2005 January/February
By Site Editor
| Published 01/5/2005
| Painting , Katsinas/Kachinas , Jewelry/Lapidary , 2005 , Bannock , Maidu , Yaqui , Shoshone , Seminole , Luiseño , Choctaw , Hopi , Pueblo , Lakota , Navajo , Cherokee
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This
spectacular dancer, Susan Armijo (Mexica), a member of the Aztec-styled
dance and music troupe America Indigena, led by flautist Xavier Quijas
Yxayotl, enthralled audiences last March at the Heard Museum Guild
Indian Fair & Market and will return for this year’s event.
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New Faces
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 Rhonda Holy Bear\'s meticulously researched and elegantly crafted dolls, Jared Chavez\'s innovative jewelry and silverwork, Liz Wallace\'s silver and turquoise jewelry plus her richly hued plique à jour enamel and Donald Sockyma\'s beautiful katsinas are explored here.
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2004 January/February
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Illustrator/pencil
artist and aspiring fashion designer Michelle Dunn (Tohono
O’odham/Creek) of Glendale, Arizona. She exemplifies the talented ranks
of young Native artists who experience their artistic coming-of-age at
the annual Heard Museum Youth Show.
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Native Sculpture Today
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 Some of the earliest Native expressions of prayer, self-identity, adornment and beauty were created in three-dimensional form from materials freely provided by the earth. Walrus ivory figures carried by hunters in the Arctic north, amulets carved in bone or wood or shaped from clay, totems reaching skyward-over the centuries, experienced hands have passed on their understanding and tools to younger hands.
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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
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 Organized exploration by the Spanish Crown northward from Mexico into the well-established culture of the Pueblo Indians, in what is now New Mexico, began in A.D. 1540. Life with their Spanish neighbors began with mutual suspicion, but also with the civil exchange of food, medicine and other goods. But by 1680, the Pueblo people had decided to revolt against the abusive policies of the Spanish
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Southwestern Jewelry
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 The Southwest's arid climate has dictated lifeways for the region's inhabitants for thousands of years. The land, bountiful only with specialized knowledge, once sustained the ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam and Mogollon peoples and remains the source of Pueblo, Navajo, Apache and other tribal cultures today. Life is guided by conviction that one can coexist harmoniously with the supernatural, if things are done in the proper way. In return, Southwestern Indians have ensouled Mother Earth into their prayers, ceremonies and adornment-particularly their stunning and diverse range of jewelry.
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2002 January/February
By Site Editor
| Published 01/1/2002
| Pueblo , Navajo , Hopi , Tlingit , Apache , Tewa , Tohono O'odham , Yaqui , Ak-chin , Salt River Pima-Maricopa , Pima , 2002
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Three-year-old
Ariana Selina and eight-year-old Philana Selina of the Hopi Tewa Senom
Dancers, here seen sprinkled with corn pollen, have charmed guests at
the annual Heard Museum Fair in Phoenix. Join us in a preview of this
year's 44th fair in March, one of the premier gatherings of Native
artists in the world.
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Four Women Potters
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 Clay work is among the world\'s oldest forms of creative expression; by the very nature of its substance, it rests among those mediums most profoundly connected to their fundamental sources. Pottery is one of the most studied, analyzed and dissected of all indigenous art forms and, historically speaking, has been and remains a considerable contributor to the annals of North America\'s first societies and Native America\'s contemporary artistic legacy.
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Northwest Meets Southwest
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| Tlingit , Tewa , Pueblo , Navajo , Hopi , Haida , Lifeways , Wood Carving , Jewelry/Lapidary , Cultural Items , May/June
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 As Haida Chief Jim Hart and his wife, Rosemary, waited at the Vancouver airport in British Columbia, Canada, last September to greet their guests-a group of Navajo and Pueblo artisans-they were concerned about the rain.
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Through Native Eyes
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 Non-Native photographers historically have ventured into Indian Country with the notion that their work would be the final visual commentary of the "vanishing American Indian." Beginning a century ago, they made their way on foot, wagon and horse carrying fragile glass plates and cumbersome, weathered view cameras. Some contemplated whether they would get rich or famous, or both.
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1999 Spring
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The vivid yellow, red and jade
colors of this Cakchiquel Maya girl’s home in San Antonio Palopo, on
the shores of Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan, are not happenstance. They were
carefully chosen by her father, Don Juan. Color in the Maya world helps
govern cultural and spiritual life.
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Through A Glass Brightly
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 In his mind's eye, Isleta Pueblo sculptor Tony Jojola already can see the forms: water jugs, seed jars, decorative pots of every design and description, all blessed by the same sacred element as clay-fire-but made of a substance that radiates the sun-glass. Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee) believes a studio glass center and glass-blowing project now taking form at Taos Pueblo will evolve into "one of the most significant Native American art movements since beadwork in the 1700s and metal-smithing and the use of silver in the 1850s."
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1998 Fall
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Two generations later, the dreams of
Pequot elder and matriarch Elizabeth George (right) have come true. The
$196 million Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, the
largest of its kind in the nation, promises to become an important
source of information about Native peoples. George’s granddaughter,
Theresa Hayward Bell (center) is the institution’s executive director.
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1998 Spring
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Coyote, which artist Harry Fonseca (Nisenan Maidu) dubs the “infamous
Native American folk hero” in this acrylic-on-canvas work “Shuffle Off
to Buffalo,” takes to the stage in an upcoming exhibition at the
National Museum of the American Indian.
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1998 Summer
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In the Inupiat hunt of a bowhead whale, Jo Jo Brower is an equal to her
husband, whaling captain Arnold Brower of Barrow, Alaska. She prepares
for the hunt a year in advance, remembering that a bowhead will give
itself to a whaling crew headed by a captain and a wife who work hard,
share with all, treat the flesh with respect and who are humble
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1996 Fall
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Standing on the site of the forthcoming National Museum of the American
Indian in Washington, D.C. are (left to right) John Colonghi (Aleut),
campaign director, and W. Richard West (Southern Cheyenne), founding
director.
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Where There is No Name for Art
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"In
the Tewa language spoken in the northern pueblos of New Mexico there is
no single word for art, for the making of `art' is not seen as being
any different from any other part of life. In a new book from SAR
Press, children from the pueblos of Santa Clara, San Juan, San
Ildefonso, Tesque and Nambe share their lives in thoughts and images
with the help of their art coach Bruce Hucko."
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1994 Summer
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Fancy dancer John Windy Boy rests briefly during an intertribal dance
at Connecticut’s major powwow, Schemitzun. Photo by Chris Roberts.
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1990 Fall
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A team runner, Dave Little Bear of Kyle, South Dakota, pushes himself
past Mato Tipila Paha (the Bear Lodge, also known as Devil’s Tower)
during the Sacred Hoop 500-Mile Run. Photo by Eric Haase.
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1990 Summer
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An 11-paddle canoe-racing team during time trials on Harrison Bay in British Columbia. Photo by Marianne and Mark Hamilton.
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1990 Winter
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Generations join together in celebration of tradition at Crow Fair in Montana. Photo by John Running.
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1989 Spring
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Aztec customs and culture still pervade and, in many ways, dominate the
lives of two million or more Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico.
Photo by Michael Moore.
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1989 Winter
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From the community of Burnt Corn, Lorraine Yazzie (Navajo) proudly
displays a rug that required a month to weave. Story page 2. Photo by
Fred Hirschmann.
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1988 Summer
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Byron Heavy Runner (Blackfeet), a traditional dancer, moves to the beat
of the powwow drum on Montana’s Rocky Boy’s Reservation. Photo by Chris
Roberts.
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1988 Winter
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Heather Bekis (Navajo) is kept busy within the hogan during her
kinaalda (Navajo puberty) ceremony. Photo by Monty Roessel (Navajo).
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1987 Fall
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Beverly Takala (Hopi) shares the warmth of her son’s first sunrise on
his 20th day, as part of his traditional Hopi naming ceremony. Photo by
Jerry Jacka.
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Art from Earth: Four Master Potters
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 Through 3,000 years of artistic development, American Indian pottery has grown from a utilitarian craft into a fine art admired around the world. Major institutions from the Heard Museum in Phoenix to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., have amassed valuable collections of both old and new pottery. It can be argued that perhaps the finest American Indian pottery ever is being created in our present era, by potters displaying a mastery of both traditional and contemporary techniques, materials and designs.
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2003 January/February
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The talented sculptor Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) poses with
one of her expressive female clay creations, a work titled "The
Occasion." Photo by Craig Smith, courtesy of the Heard Museum.
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2000 February/March
By Site Editor
| Published 10/12/2006
| 2000 , Coast Salish , Shoshone , Seminole , Hochunk , Creek , Cree , Osage , Tlingit , Hopi , Pueblo , Navajo
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The
face of 21st century Native America is both old and new-a testament to
the tenacity and vibrant creativity of those who originally inhabited
the Western Hemisphere. In so many ways, Randy'L He-dow Teton
(Shoshone-Bannock/Cree) represents the convergence of past, present and
future. Her likeness appears on the new $1 U.S. coin released last
month bearing the depiction of 19th century Lemhi Shoshone heroine
Sacagawea, who led explorers Lewis & Clark into the West.Click on "Full Story" to view the complete Table of Contents. |
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2005 May/June
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Niko DeRoin-Davidson (Otoe-Missouria/Choctaw) wears a traditional Otoe-style dress made of elk skin.
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2003 March/April
By Site Editor
| Published 03/1/2003
| 2003 , Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs , Pima , Diné , Coeur d'Alene , Agua Caliente Cahuilla Indians , Mashantucket Pequot , Tohono O'odham , Choctaw , Pueblo , Makah , Blackfeet , Navajo , US Travel
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A Photo Safari in Dinetah
The
Four Corners Region of the American Southwest is a photographer's
Mecca, as seen in this photo-snapping excursion in Monument Valley led
by noted Navajo artist LeRoy DeJolie. By Hilary Wallace. Photos by
LeRoy DeJolie Navajo.
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2005 September/October
By Site Editor
| Published 09/28/2005
| Fetishes , Dance , 2005 , Metis , Diné , Maya , Zuni , Ute , Chippewa , Apache , Anishinaabe , Pueblo , Navajo , Mohawk
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Rulan Tangen (Metis) is one of the stable of high-energy, talented and
ambitious young Native contemporary dancers taking the world’s stages
by storm. Fashions by Marama—Kingi Davis and Tracey Lloydd (Ngapuhi
Tribe, Aotearoa). Photo by Richard Bluecloud Castaneda Salt River Pima.
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2004 May/June
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Singer,
songwriter, musician and performer Joanne Shenandoah (Oneida) possesses
a golden voice, a charming demeanor and a determined work
ethic—characteristics that have carried her to the top of the Native
music realm.
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2003 May/June
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Walela
Cherokee
hummingbirds Rita Coolidge (left), Laura Satterfield and Priscilla
Coolidge (right) form the trio Walela, one of the finest sets of voices
in music today. Photo by Jill Jarrett.
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2000 April/May
By Site Editor
| Published 04/1/2000
| 2000 , Ute , Luiseño , Kuna , Cree , Apache , Osage , Pueblo , Dakota , Kiowa , Navajo , Mohawk
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R. Carlos Nakai
From Flagstaff to Vietnam, and canyon rims to international venues,
Navajo/Ute flutist R. Carlos Nakai's 15-year musical journey began from
a chance encounter with a Santa Fe flute vendor. Trained in the field
of education, the three-time NAMMY winner and thrice Grammy-nominated
musician now forges cultural philosophies and new age compositions that
reach all walks of life.
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2003 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2003
| 2003 , Comanche , Tewa , Sioux , Salt River Pima-Maricopa , Iroquois , Hochunk , Choctaw , Chickasaw , Anishinaabe , Haida , Pueblo , Navajo , Apparel/Fashion
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Native
American fashion sheds its modest garments in favor of a dazzling
wardrobe of novel apparel, such as this dress in bias-cut silk by
Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo). It features Zuni Pueblo dragonfly
designs that illustrate how the insect brought rain to the Earth, with
the short top representing rain clouds and the tie the falling rain.
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2002 July/August
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Artist Ed Archie NoiseCat
They're talented, they're innovative, and they're in demand at Indian
market events nationwide. Glass, wood and metal artist Ed Archie
NoiseCat (Shuswap/Stlitlimx) is one of the market stars we profile in
"Five Market Artists." Cover photo by Wendy McEahern.
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2000 June/July
By Site Editor
| Published 03/8/2000
| 2000 , Diné , Coeur d'Alene , Nez Perce , Muskogee , Creek , Crow , Nunamiut , Hopi , Pueblo , Kiowa , Blackfeet , Navajo
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Navajo Style: Fashion for All Seasons
The classic Navajo skirt and blouse—worn with pumps, cowboy boots or
moccasins—has come to epitomize the spirit of Western femininity.
Navajo Style follows the evolution of Navajo dress and highlights
current trends and designers.
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2004 July/August
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The energy and excitement of powwow dancing is captured in this image
taken at the Arizona State University annual powwow in Tucson. Photo by
Louis Baca Santa Clara Pueblo/Tewa.
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2003 September/October
By Site Editor
| Published 09/1/2003
| 2003 , Zuni , Seminole , Nez Perce , Creek , Chippewa , Apache , Hopi , Pueblo , Navajo , Jewelry/Lapidary
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Cornelia
Bowannie, leader of the Zuni Olla Maidens, of Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico
proudly displays two of her people's world-famous cultural attributes:
their beautiful handmade pottery and their stunning turquoise jewelry.
The Maidens, ages 13 to 59, travel the U.S and Canada performing
traditional Zuni songs and dances.
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2000 September/October
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Arresting creations like the coiled, Best of Show piece woven by Joyce
Ann Saufkie (Hopi), have generated a buzz of interest from collectors
and galleries. Seven-month old Elaina Garcia, daughter of Blue Rain
Gallery owner Leroy Garcia, demonstrates her own interest in basket
collecting. Photo by Lynn Lockwood.
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2001 July/August
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Fritz Scholder: A Lust For Life
An in-depth look at and conversation with a leading figure of the
contemporary Indian art world, including a glimpse back at his
formative years in Santa Fe; his views on life and death; discussion of
his current work, exhibitions and a new book; and the role of an artist
in the world.
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2001 September/October
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Speaking With The Earth: Tales Of Four Women Potters
Profiles of four outstanding and diverse living female potters: the
elder Mary Lewis Garcia of Acoma with her traditional styles; Tammy
Garcia of Santa Clara with her bold, deep-carved styles using
traditional techniques; Kickapoo artist Pahponee with her elegant,
innovative work; and Autumn Borts of Santa Clara, who is at the
beginning of what promises to be an outstanding career.
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