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Navajo Pottery: Traditions and Innovations

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This book is divided into eight chapters, as follows:

1. The Navajo People
2. Navajo Pottery
3. Navajo Pottery Technology
4. Historic Navajo Pottery
5. Decline and Survival of the Pottery Tradition
6. Revitalization of Navajo Pottery
7. Contemporary Pitch-Coated Navajo Pottery
8. Reaching Beyond Traditions

In Chapter 7, potters such as Lorena Bartlett, Bertha and Silas Claw, Alice Cling, and a host of others are covered. And in Chapter 8, potters such as Christine McHorse and Lucy McKelvey, and others, are discussed.

The book is full of beautiful photos of beautiful Navajo pottery, past and present.