Julesburg Public Library

This study of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans surveys the rock art of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and West Texas from 2,000 B.C. to the nineteenth century.

Annotations for each plate on verso of preceding plate.

In their basketry, weaving ,and pottery, the Southwest's Indian people carry forth a heritage of artistic traditions. They express a bond to the land and to their past....

The Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, Pima and other Indians living in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico are famed for their textile, pottery, sand-painting and other designs expressing geometric purity and animal grace.

The Laboratory of Anthropology, the Museum of New Mexico's anthropological research unit, presents selections from its famed Southwest Indian art and artifacts collection. Essays by noted scholars in the field illuminate the change and continuity over two thousand years of Native American basketry, textiles, pottery, and jewelry, while developing the connections between prehistoric, historic, and contemporary trends and traditions.