STYLE TRENDS IN PUEBLO POTTERY in the Rio Grande and Little Colorado Cultural Areas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century [SOLD]

STYLE TRENDS IN PUEBLO POTTERY in the Rio Grande and Little Colorado Cultural Areas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 

by H. P. Mera

Memoirs of the Laboratory of Anthropology, Volume III, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1939

Harback, first edition 1939. 165 pages with 57 beautifully illustrated plates

CONTENTS

Development of Form

The Five Ceramic Provinces in Late Prehistoric Times

Conditions of Society Affecting Ceramics during the Spanish Colonial Period

Description

Upper Rio Grande Ceramic Province

     Sankawi Black-on-cream

     Tewa Polychrome

     Posuge Red

     Ogapoge Polychrome

     Pojoaque Polychrome

     Kapo Black

Middle Rio Grande Ceramic Province

      Kotyiti Glaze-polychrome

     Puname Polychrome

Little Colorado Ceramic Province

     Hawikuh Polychrome

     Ashiwi Polychrome

Hopi Ceramic Province

A Trend in Decoration

The Feather Motif in Historic Design

Bibliography

An Explanation of the Plates