With 290 illustrations, this book delves into the authentic decorative art of the American southwest Indians, a most beautiful art tradition in the primitive world. The art demonstrates technical skills with simple materials, symbolic richness, and the imaginative use of unique ornaments.  The book focuses heavily on pottery and ceramic art.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians

Jonathan S. Day

Massachusetts

A New Generation of Carvers

Here is the essential addition to the collection of anyone who is interested in Kachinas, not only those found on store shelves or in museums, but also those found in Hopi homes. Johnathan Day gives the reader an in-depth look at the differences between contemporary dolls made for collectors and traditional kachinas made for ceremonial use. A rare glimpse into the lives of the carvers, this unique book explains the cultural significance of the kachina and the growing popularity of collecting traditional-style dolls. The ninety color photographs and intimate interviews with the artists will take the reader into an art form that celebrates the cultural depths of the Hopis.

Traditional Hopi Kachinas

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Bertha P. Dutton

Colorado

Hopi, Acoma, Tewa, Zuni

Myths and Legends of the Indians of the Southwest

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

History

…If You Lived With-Lot of 3; Abraham Lincoln, The Hopi, The Iroquois

Eric Bromberg

Michigan

The beautiful diversity of Hopi Kachina dolls is pictorially presented to show past, present, and evolving styles. These carved representations of ceremonial figures taking part in celebrations of the Kachina religion are popular collectibles. This book serves to explain, compare, and present the variety of dolls through color pictures, line drawings, and a concise text.

The Hopi Approach to the Art of Kachina Doll Carving

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Harold Courlander

Pennsylvania

The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians As Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions

Here the noted folklorist brings together traditional accounts of epic events and adventures in the life of Hopi clans and villages, from legendary to historical times. The setting of these various adventures and events is not the Southwest as we know it today, but a vast and largely unpeopled wilderness in which clans and families wandered in search of a final living place, and in search of their collective identity. Notes, a pronunciation guide, and a glossary enhance the reader's appreciation of the text.

The Fourth World of the Hopis

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Illinois

A Hopi Adventure

Truth is a Bright Star

Thomas E. Sheridan

Almost like new. Minor scuffing found on the cover. No annotations or highlights.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Mexico

The first of a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the first encounter in 1540 until the eve of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. By comparing and contrasting Spanish documents with Hopi oral traditions, the editors portray a balanced presentation of their shared past. Translations of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century documents written by Spanish explorers, colonial officials, and Franciscan missionaries tell the perspectives of the European visitors, and oral traditions recounted by Hopi elders reveal the Indigenous experience. The editors argue that the Spanish record is incomplete, and only the Hopi perspective can balance the story. The Spanish documentary record (and by extension the documentary record of any European or Euro-American colonial power) is biased and distorted, according to the editors, who assert there are enormous silences about Hopi responses to Spanish missionization and colonization. The only hope of correcting those weaknesses is to record and analyze Hopi oral traditions, which have been passed down from generation to generation, and give voice to Hopi values and Hopi social memories of what was a traumatic period in their past. Spanish abuses during missionization—which the editors address specifically and directly as the sexual exploitation of Hopi women, suppression of Hopi ceremonies, and forced labor of Hopis—drove Hopis to the breaking point, inspiring a Hopi revitalization that led them to participate in the Pueblo Revolt. Those abuses, the revolt, and the resistance that followed remain as open wounds in Hopi society today.

Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540-1679

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Genevieve Anderson-Morgan

1993 Chronicle Books. Stories and essays from D.H. Lawrence, Sandra Cisneros, Barry Gifford, Georgia O'Keefe, Carl Jung, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sam Shepard, Alison Moore, Larry McMurtry, John Muir, Hunter S. Thompson, Rudolfo Anaya, Walter Noble Burns, Edward Abbey, Henry Miller. Also Tewa,Hopi, and Zuni myths.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Tales from the Desert

Myths, native American legends, and stories from 18 authors as diverse as D.H. Lawrence, Carl Jung and Barry Gifford.

Southwest Stories

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Frank Waters

The secrets of the Hopi "road of life" revealed for the first time in written form

In this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona--a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America--freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for countless centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. Now they record their myths and legends, and the meaning of their religious rituals and ceremonies as a gift to future generations. Here is a reassertion of a rhythm of life we have disastrously tried to ignore and instincts we have tragically repressed, and a reminder that we must attune ourselves to the need for inner change if we are to avert a cataclysmic rupture between our minds and hearts.

The Book of the Hopi

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Pages from Hopi History

Harry P. Mera

The decorative art of the Southwestern Indians. A Dover book.

Wisconsin

176 Illustrations of the Rain Bird

Originally published under title: The "rain bird'': a study in Pueblo design.

Pueblo Designs

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New York

Idaho

G. M. Mullett

Spider Woman Stories Legends of the Hopi Indians

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Hopi Material Culture

Robert Boissiere

Utah

Meditations with the Hopi is a collection of songs and rituals that impart the essence of the Hopi world view. It is a narrative of creation and change, of prophecy and fulfillment in the midst of koyaanisqatsi, or "world out of balance." Here is a heartfelt view of the Hopi Way as seen by one of the few white men to have lived within this ancient culture.

Meditations with the Hopi

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Oregon

Book of the Hopi

Theda Bassman

Jerry Jacka

Treasures of the Hopi

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Janelle Samara

Hawaii

When Hope grows massive wings and learns to fly, her elders declare her their only hope, the savior of the Hopi people, and make plans to gather everyone in the tribe back to the reservation in southwestern Colorado. After learning of prophecies predicting a war that could end society, Hope is frantic to save her childhood friend, Taniya, who moved away shortly before Hope's wings began to grow. She arrives at Taniya's apartment in New York, only to learn that her roommate, Deema, is a vampire. He quickly falls in love with Hope, professing her to be a reincarnation of his late wife who died over 500 years ago. Hope plans to save her people through her abilities to dream the future and remote view the present, and she doesn't need any distractions. But she feels so drawn to this man. Life becomes further complicated when Hope discovers she's pregnant with the vampire's child. When she realizes that her pregnancy is accelerated and the baby will be born after only two weeks, she worries she will not survive, especially when she hears a prophecy about a blood drinker who will distract her from her mission and turn her into a demon. Could the prophesy be referring to Deema and, if so, does she really have the strength to give him up before the coming war destroys her people...people who are counting on her to save them?

Our Only Hope

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayó, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements from Santa Fe to Monterey.In strict terms, the expedition failed. Running out of food and beset by an early winter, the twelve-man team gave up in what is now western Utah. The retreat to Santa Fe became an ordeal of survival. The men were reduced to eating their own horses while they searched for a crossing of the raging Colorado River in Glen Canyon. Seven months after setting out, Domínguez and Escalante staggered back to Santa Fe. Yet in the course of their 1,700-mile voyage, the explorers discovered more land unknown to Europeans than Lewis and Clark would encounter a quarter-century later.Other writers, using Escalante's brilliant and quirky diary as a guide, have retraced the expedition route, but David Roberts is the first to dig beneath its pages to question and ponder every turn of the team's decision-making and motivation. Roberts weaves the personal and the historical narratives into a gripping journey of discovery through the magnificent American Southwest.

Escalante's Dream

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Anne Kamma

A. P. Koedt

California

The breadth of issues covered makes this a rich presentation of our country's dramatic beginnings-perfect for sparking interesting classroom discussions.


If You Lived with the Hopi Indians

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Kwahu the Hopi Indian Boy

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Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians

Jonathan S. Day

Traditional Hopi Kachinas

Bertha P. Dutton and Caroline Olin

Myths and Legends of the Indians of the Southwest

Ann McGovern, Anne Kamma, Ellen Levine

…If You Lived With-Lot of 3; Abraham Lincoln, The Hopi, The Iroquois

Eric Bromberg

The Hopi Approach to the Art of Kachina Doll Carving

Harold Courlander

The Fourth World of the Hopis

John Price

Truth is a Bright Star

Thomas E. Sheridan

Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540-1679

Edited by John Miller; Genevieve Anderson-Morgan

Southwest Stories

Frank Waters

The Book of the Hopi

Harry C. James

Pages from Hopi History

Harry P. Mera

Pueblo Designs

Frank Waters

The Book of the Hopi

Frank Waters

The Book of the Hopi

G. M. Mullett

Spider Woman Stories Legends of the Hopi Indians

Frank Waters

The Book of the Hopi

Barton Wright

Hopi Material Culture

Robert Boissiere

Meditations with the Hopi

Frank Waters

Book of the Hopi

Theda Bassman; Jerry Jacka

Treasures of the Hopi

Janelle Samara

Our Only Hope

David Roberts

Escalante's Dream

Anne Kamma; A. P. Koedt

If You Lived with the Hopi Indians

George Newell Moran

Kwahu the Hopi Indian Boy