This is the first publication on a remarkable collection of 66 outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr., a prominent Boston businessman, avocational anthropologist, and patron of Southwestern archaeology. Claflin bequeathed to the museum not only these beautiful textiles, but also his detailed accounts of their collection histories - a rare record of the individuals who had owned or traded these weavings before they found a home in his private museum. Textile scholar Laurie Webster tells the stories of the weavings as they left...
This is the first publication on a remarkable collection of 66 outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by Wi...
This attractive volume catalogues the effigy pottery so-called because they're decorated with the heads and sometimes with the fins, tails, and feet of various creatures collected from prehistoric mounds in Arkansas for the Peabody Museum by Edwin Curtiss in the late 19th century. The collecting expedition is described at length in initial chapters
This attractive volume catalogues the effigy pottery so-called because they're decorated with the heads and sometimes with the fins, tails, and feet o...
The Mimbres people of southwest New Mexico lived from A.D. 200 until the 1100s, and are best known for their distinctive painted pottery that incorporate sophisticated abstract and representational images. Archaeologist LeBlanc of the Peabody Museum outlines Harriet & Burton Cosgrove's excavation of the Swarts Ranch ruin in the 1920s, and provides
The Mimbres people of southwest New Mexico lived from A.D. 200 until the 1100s, and are best known for their distinctive painted pottery that incorpor...
