Research Catalog

Title

Born of clay : ceramics from the National Museum of the American Indian / by Ramiro Matos [and others].

Publication

• Washington ; New York : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, [2005]
• ©2005

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Matos Mendieta, Ramiro.
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center, host institution.

Description

96 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

• This book features Native ceramics representing the cultures of the Andes, Mexico, the American Southwest, and the Eastern U.S. dating from 4,000 years ago to the present. These ceramics serve as narratives that record the potter's world. --Amazon.
• "The museum's holdings are rich in examples of Native ceramics from throughout the Western Hemisphere, stretching across forty centuries to the present day. In this book, four scholars introduce important and little-known ceramic figures and vessels representing the cultures of the Andes, Mexico, the American Southwest, and the eastern United States. Extensively illustrated with beautiful new photographs of objects from the museum's collections, including many pieces published here for the first time, Born of Clay brings curatorial and Native artistic perspectives together to present a lively and concise introduction to Native American ceramics"--

Series Statement

NMAI editions

Uniform Title

NMAI editions

Alternative Title

Ceramics from the National Museum of the American Indian

Subject

• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center > Exhibitions
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) > Catalogs
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center
• New York (N.Y.) > National Museum of the American Indian
• Geschichte
• Indian pottery > Exhibitions
• Indians > Material culture > Exhibitions
• Indians > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Pottery > America > Exhibitions
• Antiquities
• Indian pottery
• Indians > Antiquities
• Indians > Material culture
• Pottery
• Keramik
• America > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• America
• Indianer

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the exhibition the Language of Native American Baskets: From the Weavers' View, at the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in New York, 20 September 2003 through 9 January 2005."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : cultural continuity / John Haworth -- The Andes : embracing tradition / Ramiro Matos -- Rivers of interaction : Eastern North America / Ann McMullen, Thomas E. Evans, and Patricia L. Nietfeld -- Mesoamerica : the cultural wellspring of ancient Mexico and Central America / Felipe Solís ---- The Southwestern United States : continuity and change / Bruce Bernstein -- Cermaics from NMAI's collections.

ISBN

• 1933565012
• 9781933565019

LCCN

2005029010

OCLC

• ocm61864454
• 61864454
• SCSB-1412358

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library