Milford Nahohai digs the clay for his pots at Pia Mesa and gathers the plants he uses for pigments from around Zuni, at the western edge of New Mexico, south of Gallup. Rocky Mountain beeweed, wild ...
(Nahohai's pottery, which incorporates elements of traditional Zuni symbolism, is displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian.) The tribal council estimates that about 80 percent of all ...
Milford Nahohai is a third generation potter who creates traditional Zuni pottery. Milford Nahohai is a third generation potter in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. His mother taught him the tradition, and now ...
Meet Bobby Silas, an Eiteljorg Museum artist-in-residence who revives ancient designs to craft contemporary pottery. The inspo: Silas — who represents the Hopi Tribe of northeastern Arizona — says he ...
More than one hundred Zuni artists converge on the Scottish Rite Center on Saturday, Aug. 20, and Sunday, Aug. 21, for a show and sale of pottery, jewelry, paintings, and carved fetishes in rock, ...
Visitors will see many aspects of pueblo culture at the Museum of Northern Arizona’s 15th Annual Zuni Marketplace, Sept. 1 and 2 in Flagstaff. Artists will demonstrate fetish carving, pottery making ...
TUCSON, ARIZONA—Analysis of pottery unearthed in downtown Tucson suggests that Spanish soldiers on an expedition in what is now New Mexico in 1795 may have transported Zuni pottery souvenirs back to ...
Surveys and excavations in the Zuni area have indicated that the culture of the earlier periods in that district was broadly Puerco-Chacoan in character, and that it was strongly influenced during the ...