Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery

by Rick Dillingham

Book Overview

In 1974 Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery was published to accompany an exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology: twenty years later there are some 80,000 copies in print. Like Seven Families , this updated and greatly enlarged version by Rick Dillingham, who curated the original exhibition, includes portraits of the potters, color photographs of their work, and a statement by each potter about the work of his or her family. In addition to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826314996
• ISBN13: 9780826314994
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 3.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous Pictures

Others have already talked about the range of pottery that is detailed in this beautiful book. What stands out for me is the incredible quality of the pictures and the 5 stars reflect that. I'm pretty finicky when it comes to the way art is presented in picture books. The plates in this book are outstanding, both in terms of the color and the size. Some books will show multiple pictures on a single page, with images that are too small to let you to fully appreciate the pieces that are being displayed. No worries about that here. It's strictly one picture per page with beautiful photographs throughout. If you appreciate Pueblo pottery, you will be WOWed by the way it's represented here.

Another art gem

For anyone interested in Native American pottery, this volume is a must-have. We are lucky enough to have met Florence Chavarria Browning of the Santa Clara pueblo, and to have purchased one of her spectacular black pots. These particular pots are not glazed, but fired specially to create the pure, colt black of onyx, darker than coal, and softly glowing. Very few artists have skill enough to burn these amazing pots, and this book, introduces readers to the best of them.

14 families of pueblo pottery

almost every piece of pottery I have is represented in the book!

Outstanding Update to an Old Classic

This is a wonderful detailed book of the the finest potters to be found in the southwest. This new expanded edition provides great family trees of the finest of Pueblo potters. If you're planning a visit to the Southwest and hope to meet some of these potters, it is the perfect companion book to The Native American Indian Artist Directory that will actually provide phone numbers and mailing addresses for many of the potters found in this outstanding edition.