The Fetish Carvers of Zuni [SOLD]

THE FETISH CARVERS OF ZUNI (Revised Edition)

Marian Rodee & James Ostler

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and The Pueblo of Zuni Arts and Crafts

Softcover, revised edition 1995, 112 pages, illustrated

From the Preface

"We undertook this study because of the great interest in the collecting of fetishes in the 1980s and the concomitant growth in the number of carvers. James Ostler, who established the Pueblo of Zuni Arts and Crafts enterprise in 1984, has been associated with the carving phenomenon from the beginning and has lived at Zuni as both an outsider and an insider. Marian Rodee, curator of Southwestern Ethnology at the Maxwell Museum of the University of New Mexico, approaches the project as a museum person interested in the history and social basis of the native arts of the Southwest. The interviews were conducted in 1988 and 1989 and the photography was done between October 1989 and May 1990."

Abbreviated Table of Contents

Preface

Prehistory and History of Zuni

History and Context of Fetishes

From 1984 to the Present

Zuni Aesthetics

The Carvers Today

Carving Families

        (24 families listed)

Summary

Addendum

From Folk Art to Fine Art

The Market

Rocks

Family Charts

Bibliography

Index