In 1984, while studying textiles in the collections of the School of American Research, Kate Peck Kent discovered a manuscript on Spanish-American weaving by the late H.P. Mera, curator of archaeology at Santa Fe's Lab of Anthropology. This forgotten manuscript describes the origin and history of the distinctive textiles woven by Spanish-Americans in New Mexico.
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Mera has captured the ancient art of Hispanic weaving, for both the inquisitive amateur and the scholar who wishes to explore unknown territory. It is an important book, one that belongs in any serious Southwest collection. --New Mexico Historical Review
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Kate Peck Kent was professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Denver, a research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a resident scholar at the School of American Research.
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Of the hand-woven textiles produced by the various peoples who have made their home in the Southwest during the historic era, those of the Spanish colonists and their descendants have perhaps received as little attention as any. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Rio Grande, New Mexico, Mera Collection, Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, Laboratory of Anthropology New!
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Of the hand-woven textiles produced by the various peoples who have made their home in the Southwest during the historic era, those of the Spanish colonists and their descendants have perhaps received as little attention as any. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
handspun wool, handspun yarns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rio Grande, New Mexico, Mera Collection, Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, Laboratory of Anthropology New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- New Mexico (America the Beautiful, Second) by Deborah Kent in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 34
- New Mexico: A Promise Made/A Place Called Home/Making Amends (Heartsong Novella Collection) by Janet Lee Barton on page 60
- Fred Harvey Fine Arts Collection by Heard Museum on page 66
- Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design by Virginia Tuttle Clayton in Back Matter
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