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Traveling Mexico ’s path to freedom
On Sept. 16, it will be 200 years since Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla , a most unusual priest, gave the battle cry for Mexicans to rid themselves of the ruling Spanish by any means necessary.We have the Fourth of July. Mexico has Diez y Seis de Septiembre. For those of us without an emotional connection to 1810, the bicentennial is an excuse to get down into Hidalgo Country. The cities and towns …
Anfora Mexico

Pueblo Pots Photo Mugs Pots of the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico the five lower pieces are prehistoric, the rest are of late 19th century Hopi and other tribes….

Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery $29.09 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 Many Faces of Mata Ortiz $20.00 Over the past three decades a flowering of extraordinary ceramic art has been underway in a tiny village on the high plains of northern Mexico–hardly the place to expect an artistic movement in the late twentieth century. Yet art lovers have been coming from all over the world to see the people of this poor, backwater village of Mata Ortiz work their earthly magic at kitchen tables and backyards …

Portraits of Clay: Potters of Mata Ortíz $7.01 Not long ago, pottery was a lost art in Chihuahua, Mexico. But in the 1970s, near the ruins of Casas Grandes, an art revolution was born. Inspired by ancient pottery fragments from a tradition that had disappeared before the arrival of the first Europeans, a self-taught woodcutter-turned-artist reinvented an entire ceramic technology. Today Casas Grandes pottery, made by hand from local clays and …