The Pueblo Storyteller

The Pueblo Storyteller
Author: Barbara A. Babcock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1986
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

"This first documentation of the Storyteller phenomenon contains a wealth of information for scholars, collectors, and general readers. Barbara Babcock's text links the invention of the Storyteller to Pueblo figurative tradition, traces the revival of figurative ceramics, makes stylistic comparisons, and discusses the artistic contributions of individual artists and Pueblos. The book is impressively illustrated and features a large section of color plates by award-winning photographer GuyMonthan. Photographs of Storytellers are enhanced by descriptive captions and quotations from the artists compiled by Doris Monthan, who has also provided biographical charts of the artists. Her listing of 233 potters who make Storytellers and related figures--in addition to 146 family members who are also potters--constitutes one of the most extensive documentations of Southwest Indian potters available in a single volume."--From front cover flap.

Pueblo Stories & Storytellers

Pueblo Stories & Storytellers
Author: Mark Bahti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Indian pottery
ISBN: 9781933855547

A new edition of the bestselling title with a new design, new photography, and updated information.

Storyteller

Storyteller
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143121286

Storyteller blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that Leslie Marmon Silko heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and explores how stories and storytelling shape people and communities. Storyteller illustrates how one can frame collective cultural identity in contemporary literary forms, as well as illuminates the importance of myth, oral tradition, and ritual in Silko's own work.

My Life in San Juan Pueblo

My Life in San Juan Pueblo
Author: Pʼoe Tsa̦wa̦
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252071584

My Life in San Juan Pueblo is a rich, rewarding, and uplifting collection of personal and cultural stories from a master of her craft. Esther Martinez's tales brim with entertaining characters that embody her Native American Tewa culture and its wisdom about respect, kindness, and positive attitudes.

Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery

Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery
Author: Rick Dillingham
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1994
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780826314994

In 1974 Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery was published to accompany an exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology: twenty years later there are some 80,000 copies in print. Like Seven Families, this updated and greatly enlarged version by Rick Dillingham, who curated the original exhibition, includes portraits of the potters, color photographs of their work, and a statement by each potter about the work of his or her family. In addition to the original seven--the Chino and Lewis families (Acoma Pueblo), the Nampeyos (Hopi), the Guteirrez and Tafoya families (Santa Clara), and the Gonzales and Martinez families (San Ildefonso)--the author had added the Chapellas and the Navasies (Hopi-Tewa), the Chavarrias (Santa Clara), the Herrera family (Choti), the Medina family (Zia), and the Tenorio-Pacheco and the Melchor families (Santo Domingo). Because the craft of pottery is handed down from generation to generation among the Pueblo Indians, this extended look at multiple generations provides a fascinating and personal glimpse into how the craft has developed. Also evident are the differences of opinion among the artists about the future of Pueblo pottery and the importance of following tradition. A new generation of potters has come of age since the publication of Seven Families. The addition of their talents, along with an ever-growing interest in Native American pottery, make this book a welcome addition to the literature on the Southwest.

Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery

Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery
Author: Douglas Congdon-Martin
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1999
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764308055

In 1964, Helen Cordero of Cochiti pueblo created the first storyteller, a clay image of her grandfather with five children clinging to him. Here the reader will find the most extensive collection of storytellers ever gathered in print. Over 400 pieces by nearly 150 artists are shown in full color, and organized by pueblo.

Serafina's Stories

Serafina's Stories
Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504011791

This innovative novel combines Spanish folktales with Native American legends to create a captivating Southwestern version of The Arabian Nights. Like Scheherezade, who ensured her survival by telling her royal husband stories, the title character in Rudolfo Anaya’s creative retelling of The Arabian Nights must entertain the recently widowed governor with legends of Nueva Mexicana, or she and her fellow captives will die. With fresh snow covering the high peaks of Sangre de Cristo, a group of native dissidents prepare for revolt. In seventeenth-century Santa Fe, insurrection against a colony of the king of Spain is punishable by death. A Spaniard loyal to the governor names twelve conspirators. One of them is a young woman. Raised in a mission church, fifteen-year-old Serafina speaks excellent Spanish and knows many of her country’s traditional folktales. She and the governor strike a bargain: Each evening, she will tell him a cuento. If he likes it, he will release one prisoner the following day. The twelve tales recounted here mirror the struggle of a divided country. They include the social and political symbolism behind “Beauty and the Beast” and retell “Cinderella” as “Miranda’s Gift.” Interspersed with these timeless cuentos is the story of Serafina herself, and that of a people battling to preserve a vanishing way of life under the long shadow of the Inquisition.

Yellow Woman

Yellow Woman
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780813520056

Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's "Yellow Woman" explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth.

Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo
Author: Jonathan Warm Day
Publisher: Clear Light Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-10
Genre: Indian painting
ISBN: 9781574160802

Ages 6 years & over. Jonathan employs a striking contemporary visual expression to allow us a candid view into the intimate communal life of Taos Pueblo as it was long ago. His charming primitive style, love of vivid colour, and strong use of space are distinctive of his work. His paintings are animated, open, and warmly inviting, revealing the enchanting serenity and gracefulness of life lived close to nature. Jonathan is also inspired by his mother, who was a well-known artist herself, and by his strong connection to the private spiritual life of his pueblo community. As appealing as this rich pastoral world is, it is vanishing quickly, even in Jonathan s lifetime. He is committed, therefore, to preserving his cultural heritage as best he can through his paintings, faithful as they are to both the timeless and the momentary. Thus he gives to his children and to all of us a remarkable record of a native lifestyle, intimately known and nostalgically recalled.

Clay Mirror

Clay Mirror
Author: Bob Kapoun
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578619422

The Tom & Charlotte Mittler Collection