Talking birds, plumed serpents and painted women
Subtitle: the ceramics of Casas Grandes = Pajaros hablando, serpientes emplumadas y mujeres pintadas : la ceramica de Casas grandes
By: Joanne Stuhr, editor ; with essays by Eduardo Gamboa Carrera ... [et al.].
Contributors: Stuhr, Joanne.; Gamboa Carrera, Eduardo.
Publisher: Tucson Museum of Art ; Distributed by University of Arizona Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tucson, AZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Casas Grandes pottery -- Exhibitions.; Casas Grandes culture -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Pajaros hablando, serpientes emplumadas y mujeres pintadas; Ceramics of Casas Grandes
Description: Reproductions of 75 of the finest pieces of pottery from the Casas Grandes civilization of Chihuahua, accompanied by interpretive essays that provide an overview of Casas Grande culture, its link to other cultures in the southwestern U.S. and western Mexico, social structures and artistic production at Paquime, and the Charles di Peso excavations.
Notes: Text in English and Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references.
Catalogue of exhibition held at Tucson Museum of Art, Dec. 14, 2002-Feb. 16, 2003.