Pueblo Pottery Families: Acoma, Cochiti, Hopi, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, ... Zia, Zuni (Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Paperback)

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Product Description

Travel to the pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico and meet 102 families that make beautiful, traditional pottery. Meet the potters face to face in beautiful color photographs of them with their work, and enjoy interviews with the artists, branches of 43 family trees. Seventeen pueblos along the Rio Grande and in the rising mesas and bluffs to river's west, have a long tradition of making pottery vessels for practical and ceremonial use. This book introduces 554 modern potters in relation to the family members with whom they learned their craft. New forms and designs are displayed to demonstrate the evolving nature of their art.

About the Author

Lillian Peaster has become a friend of many of the pueblo potters and collected their art for years. She came to live in Sedona, Arizona, to be closer to the land and people she loves.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764302337
• ISBN-13: 978-0764302336
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,327,550 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Disappointment, February 2, 2003

By	Richard S. Guier (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Unfortunately, this book promises a lot more than it delivers. For example, in its preface, it mentions several families of potters at Acoma named Lewis not related to Lucy Lewis, but they are not even mentioned. Even the section on the family of Lucy Lewis is barely 2 pages. The author for the most part barely skims the surface. I desperately wanted to like this book, but the more I read it, the more I saw was lacking. For one thing, it seriously needed a much better editor. It reads like a grade school student's social studies report, and it is filled with typos, the worst being that many of the photo captions are wrong because the photos were flipped and the captions were not corrected. A major disappointment for the price. Fortunately I bought it in paperback! It did have some good information, but it could have and should have had much more.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An EXCELLENT resource for those interested in pottery., January 3, 1999

By A Customer

This book is an excellent resource if you are interested in collecting pottery from all peublos as well as a variety of families. Although not quite as in depth as Rick Dillingmham's Fourteen Families, she does mention many families that he does not.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pueblo Pottery Families, May 13, 2007

By	Pottery Collector - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pueblo Pottery Families: Acoma, Cochiti, Hopi, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, Zuni (Paperback)

The book provided insight into the relationships of the potters on the different pueblos. We like the book. It is inexpensive. We will have it available when we visit the different pueblos.